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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!

Robert Burns

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.
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Beautiful Charm Creation Grace Motion Myself Night Sex
And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Herself Light Pass Run Thinking
Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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Disappointment One Liner Worst
But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Fact Fight Life
A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Average Greatness Man Power Woman
To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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Happiness Human Life True Wife
Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Desire Learning Nature Spark
There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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Brand Divine Love
Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Gift Ourselves Power See
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
The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Best Planning Time
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
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Person Powerful Rich
Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Liberty Lying Paint Poet
I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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Domination Myself Nature Social Sorry True
To step aside is human.
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Human One Liner

O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!

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