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It ‘s guid to be merry and wise, It ‘s guid to be honest and true, It ‘s guid to support Caledonia’s cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.

Robert Burns

Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
ROBERT BURNS

Gift Ourselves Power See
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.
ROBERT BURNS

Desire Enemy Friendship Heart Love Myself Peace Tears
Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
ROBERT BURNS

Hands Right True Unity
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
I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator’s workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.
ROBERT BURNS

Beautiful Charm Creation Grace Motion Myself Night Sex
Oh my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; Oh my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune.
ROBERT BURNS

Play Red Rose
Life is but a day at most.
ROBERT BURNS

Life One Liner Time
When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
ROBERT BURNS

Desperate Face
The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
ROBERT BURNS

Generosity God Heart Kind
My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
ROBERT BURNS

Dreams Fantasy Heart Myself Yourself
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
ROBERT BURNS

Critics Fame Path Struggle
Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
ROBERT BURNS

Liberty Lying Paint Poet
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
ROBERT BURNS

Brave Dare Fear Honesty
The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
ROBERT BURNS

Best Man Planning Wasted
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.
ROBERT BURNS

Fun Money Myself Name Rhyme Thinking
The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
ROBERT BURNS

Best Planning Time

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