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Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!

Robert Burns

The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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Best Destroy Planning
Anticipation forward points the view.
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One Liner Point View
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.
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Character Complaint Coward Endurance Myself Possession
Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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Bloom Flower Happiness Nature Wisdom
Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Hope Yourself
The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Friendship One Liner World
The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Best Planning Time
I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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Commission Life Oneself Time
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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Care Control Root Wisdom
To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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Forever Herself Love Nature See
Life is but a day at most.
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Life One Liner Time
There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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Brand Divine Love
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.
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Fools Freedom Ourselves Power
Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Liberty Lying Paint Poet
If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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Best Himself Live World
When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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Cold Forest November Winds
I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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Discrimination Doubt Grave Laughter Myself Time
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
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Dare Death Fear Himself Honesty Man Music Sing
Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
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Fun Money Myself Name Rhyme Thinking
My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav’n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
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Health Heaven Myself Peace Warm
The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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Love Man Wisdom
Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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End One Liner Present Time
The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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Bath Flower Ourselves Violence
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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heavy Protection Weight
Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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Blessing Glory King Life Victory
The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Honesty King Man Poor
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Critics Fame Path Struggle

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