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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.

Robert Burns

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
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.
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Beautiful Charm Creation Grace Motion Myself Night Sex
Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Hope Success Wings
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 wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Friendship One Liner World
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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heavy Protection Weight
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
My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
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Fools Right Rule Son Wisdom
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
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
But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Fact Fight Life
Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Human Mourning Silver
Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Book End Lying One Liner
But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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Forever Love See
The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Honesty King Man Poor
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
ROBERT BURNS

Care Control Root Wisdom

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