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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.

Robert Burns

The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Honesty King Man Poor
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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heavy Protection Weight
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
Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
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Happiness Morning Nature Wind
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Person Powerful Rich
A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Himself Man Work
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
My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
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Fools Right Rule Son Wisdom
And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Herself Light Pass Run Thinking
There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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Brand Divine Love
Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Liberty Lying Paint Poet
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.
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Acceptance God Hypocrisy Man Murder Shame Thankful Yourself
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
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
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
Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Human Mourning Silver

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