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Robert Burns

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.
ROBERT BURNS

Fools Freedom Ourselves Power
Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
ROBERT BURNS

Acceptance God Hypocrisy Man Murder Shame Thankful Yourself
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
ROBERT BURNS

Character Complaint Coward Endurance Myself Possession
When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
ROBERT BURNS

Cold Forest November Winds
To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
ROBERT BURNS

Forever Herself Love Nature See
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
ROBERT BURNS

Fall Moments River Snow
But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
ROBERT BURNS

Fact Fight Life
The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
ROBERT BURNS

Art Burn Silver
Nae man can tether time or tide.
ROBERT BURNS

Change Man One Liner Time
What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
ROBERT BURNS

Admire Life Love Morning Nature Night Sun
Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
ROBERT BURNS

One Liner Short
I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
ROBERT BURNS

Commission Life Oneself Time
The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
ROBERT BURNS

Honesty King Man Poor
The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
ROBERT BURNS

Best Destroy Planning
The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
ROBERT BURNS

Best Joy Leaving Man Pain Promise
Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
ROBERT BURNS

Beautiful Fade Nature Season

Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.

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