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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Robert Burns

Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Change Law Nature
The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Best Man Planning Wasted
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
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
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
Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Liberty Lying Paint Poet
O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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Heaven Myself Patriot Warm
There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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Brand Divine Love
The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Generosity God Heart Kind
Nae man can tether time or tide.
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Change Man One Liner Time
Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Desire Learning Nature Spark
Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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Best Count Death Humanity Kind Law Man Nature
A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Average Greatness Man Power Woman
The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Honesty King Man Poor
Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Silver Wine
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

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