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

Robert Burns

Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Change Law Nature
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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Care Control Root Wisdom
The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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Cry Death Loud Nature Sky Voice
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 best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Best Man Planning Wasted
Anticipation forward points the view.
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One Liner Point View
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Fall Moments River Snow
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
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Critics Fame Path Struggle
If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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Best Himself Live World
And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Herself Light Pass Run Thinking
Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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One Liner Short
The golden hours on angel wings Flew o’er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.
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Gold Life Light Myself Wings
Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry. Friendship had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me – God of love only knows where.
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Blessing Friendship God Goodness Love Poetry Time
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
The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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Best Destroy Planning
Nae man can tether time or tide.
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Change Man One Liner Time
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
The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Best Planning Time
The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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Love Man Wisdom
Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Gift Ourselves Power See
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
Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Human Mourning Silver
I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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Discrimination Doubt Grave Laughter Myself Time
My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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Dreams Fantasy Heart Myself Yourself
Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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End One Liner Present Time
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

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

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