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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

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
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.
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Discrimination Doubt Grave Laughter Myself Time
When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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Cold Forest November Winds
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
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Philosophy Uncertain
Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Book End Lying One Liner
Nae man can tether time or tide.
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Change Man One Liner Time
Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Gift Ourselves Power See
O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.
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Fools Freedom Ourselves Power
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
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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heavy Protection Weight
She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
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Appearance Beautiful Herself Love Myself Wife
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
Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Liberty Lying Paint Poet
Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Beautiful Fade Nature Season
The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
ROBERT BURNS

Bath Flower Ourselves Violence

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