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But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.

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
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
Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Book End Lying One Liner
Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Hope Success Wings
When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Desperate Face
Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Silver Wine
But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Fact Fight Life
O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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Heaven Myself Patriot Warm
Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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Bloom Flower Happiness Nature Wisdom
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Critics Fame Path Struggle
Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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End One Liner Present Time
Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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Blessing Glory King Life Victory
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Person Powerful Rich
Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Beautiful Fade Nature Season
When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
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Frame Greatness Human Man Mindset Nature Planning Work
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

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.

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