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

Robert Burns

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
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
Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Gift Ourselves Power See
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
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Dare Death Fear Himself Honesty Man Music Sing
And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Herself Light Pass Run Thinking
Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Desire Learning Nature Spark
Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
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Hands Right True Unity
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Critics Fame Path Struggle
Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Human Mourning Silver
The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Honesty King Man Poor
Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Beautiful Fade Nature Season
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
To step aside is human.
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Human One Liner
Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Hope Yourself
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
But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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Forever Love See
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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Break Forever Heart Kind Love See
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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Brave Dare Fear Honesty
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
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Exercise Mindset Quote Struggle Turbulent
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Philosophy Uncertain
My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav’n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
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Health Heaven Myself Peace Warm
The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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Best Destroy Planning
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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Care Control Root Wisdom
Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Hope Success Wings
What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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Admire Life Love Morning Nature Night Sun
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Fall Moments River Snow
The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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Best Joy Leaving Man Pain Promise

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

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