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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.

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.
ROBERT BURNS

Fools Freedom Ourselves Power
I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
ROBERT BURNS

Discrimination Doubt Grave Laughter Myself Time
The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
ROBERT BURNS

Art Burn Silver
When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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Cold Forest November Winds
An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there’s another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
ROBERT BURNS

Best Friendship Himself Honesty Knowledge Lie Live Man Virtue World
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
ROBERT BURNS

Care Control Root Wisdom
The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
ROBERT BURNS

Best Destroy Planning
Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
ROBERT BURNS

Desire Learning Nature Spark
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Person Powerful Rich
The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
ROBERT BURNS

Generosity God Heart Kind
Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
ROBERT BURNS

Liberty Lying Paint Poet
But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
ROBERT BURNS

Bloom Flower Forever Happiness Moments River
A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
ROBERT BURNS

Average Greatness Man Power Woman
Anticipation forward points the view.
ROBERT BURNS

One Liner Point View
Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
ROBERT BURNS

End One Liner Present Time
But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
ROBERT BURNS

Forever Love See

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