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Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

Robert Burns

Life is but a day at most.
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Life One Liner Time
When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Desperate Face
And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Herself Light Pass Run Thinking
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
God knows, I’m not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
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Atheist God Hide Myself Time
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
But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou’d sae kindly, Had we never lou’d sae blindly, Never met – or never parted – We had ne’er been broken hearted.
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Break Forever Heart Kind Love See
The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church’s ban Or hell’s damnation.
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Best Fear Heart Hell Honesty Man Need
The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Honesty King Man Poor
A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Himself Man Work
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
To step aside is human.
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Human One Liner
Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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End One Liner Present Time
When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
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Frame Greatness Human Man Mindset Nature Planning Work
But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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Forever Love See
Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Gift Ourselves Power See

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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