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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.

Robert Burns

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
Nae man can tether time or tide.
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Change Man One Liner Time
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Critics Fame Path Struggle
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
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Fall Moments River Snow
When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Desperate Face
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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heavy Protection Weight
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
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Person Powerful Rich
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
Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Book End Lying One Liner
And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Herself Light Pass Run Thinking
Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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End One Liner Present Time
Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Human Mourning Silver
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
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

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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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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