How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
ROBERT BURNS
I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
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