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Some books are lies frae end to end.

Robert Burns

The golden hours on angel wings Flew o’er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.
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Gold Life Light Myself Wings
Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Gift Ourselves Power See
Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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Bloom Flower Happiness Nature Wisdom
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
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Critics Fame Path Struggle
Life is but a day at most.
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Life One Liner Time
The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Friendship One Liner World
To step aside is human.
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Human One Liner
To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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Happiness Human Life True Wife
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Fall Moments River Snow
Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Hope Success Wings
Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Change Law Nature
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
When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Desperate Face
The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Best Planning Time
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

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