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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!

Robert Burns

Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
ROBERT BURNS

Desire Learning Nature Spark
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.
ROBERT BURNS

Atheist God Hide Myself Time
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.
ROBERT BURNS

Desire Enemy Friendship Heart Love Myself Peace Tears
To step aside is human.
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Human One Liner
I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
ROBERT BURNS

Commission Life Oneself Time
Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Change Law Nature
Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Silver Wine
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.
ROBERT BURNS

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
God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
ROBERT BURNS

Be Yourself God Myself Personality
The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
ROBERT BURNS

Cry Death Loud Nature Sky Voice
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.
ROBERT BURNS

Fun Money Myself Name Rhyme Thinking
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Philosophy Uncertain
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.
ROBERT BURNS

Discrimination Doubt Grave Laughter Myself Time
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.
ROBERT BURNS

Beautiful Charm Creation Grace Motion Myself Night Sex
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.
ROBERT BURNS

Blessing Friendship God Goodness Love Poetry Time

Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!

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