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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.

Robert Burns

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
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
Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Hope Success Wings
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Person Powerful Rich
The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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Love Man Wisdom
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
She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
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Appearance Beautiful Herself Love Myself Wife
Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Beautiful Fade Nature Season
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Fall Moments River Snow
Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Hope Yourself
The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Friendship One Liner World
O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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Heaven Myself Patriot Warm
Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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Kind Man Meaning One Liner Science
Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
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Desire Enemy Friendship Heart Love Myself Peace Tears
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
Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Change Law Nature

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