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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

Robert Burns

Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Silver Wine
Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Liberty Lying Paint Poet
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Person Powerful Rich
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
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Fall Moments River Snow
What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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Admire Life Love Morning Nature Night Sun
Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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End One Liner Present Time
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
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.
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Guide Honesty Support True Wisdom
When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Desperate Face
O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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Life Myself Obstacle Path Road Struggle
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 have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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Commission Life Oneself Time
Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
ROBERT BURNS

Acceptance God Hypocrisy Man Murder Shame Thankful Yourself
The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
ROBERT BURNS

Cry Death Loud Nature Sky Voice
The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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Best Destroy Planning

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