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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.

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
Nae man can tether time or tide.
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Change Man One Liner Time
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
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Dare Death Fear Himself Honesty Man Music Sing
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
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
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
Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Desire Learning Nature Spark
O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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Heaven Myself Patriot Warm
Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Hope Yourself
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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Brave Dare Fear Honesty
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Fall Moments River Snow
Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Liberty Lying Paint Poet
Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
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Hands Right True Unity
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.
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Play Red Rose
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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Care Control Root Wisdom
Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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Best Count Death Humanity Kind Law Man Nature

There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.

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