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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.

Robert Burns

Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Desire Learning Nature Spark
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Fall Moments River Snow
Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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One Liner Short
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
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Critics Fame Path Struggle
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
The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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Best Joy Leaving Man Pain Promise
A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Himself Man Work
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
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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Happiness Morning Nature Wind
Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Silver Wine
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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Desire Enemy Friendship Heart Love Myself Peace Tears
And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Herself Light Pass Run Thinking
God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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Be Yourself God Myself Personality
Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Liberty Lying Paint Poet
To step aside is human.
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Human One Liner

And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.

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