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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent

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
The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Honesty King Man Poor
O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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Life Myself Obstacle Path Road Struggle
There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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Brand Divine Love
But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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Forever Love See
A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Himself Man Work
The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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Bath Flower Ourselves Violence
An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there’s another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
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Best Friendship Himself Honesty Knowledge Lie Live Man Virtue World
If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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Best Himself Live World
God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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Be Yourself God Myself Personality
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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heavy Protection Weight
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
The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Friendship One Liner World
A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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Integrity Meaning Mindset Performance
Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Silver Wine
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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Brave Dare Fear Honesty
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
When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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Cold Forest November Winds
And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation’s path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
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Fear God Mindset Responsibility Temptation Yourself
The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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Art Burn Silver
The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church’s ban Or hell’s damnation.
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Best Fear Heart Hell Honesty Man Need
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Fall Moments River Snow
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Person Powerful Rich
Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Change Law Nature
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
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
Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Death Ourselves Team

O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent

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