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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.

Robert Burns

Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
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Acceptance God Hypocrisy Man Murder Shame Thankful Yourself
Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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One Liner Short
I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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Domination Myself Nature Social Sorry True
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
The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Friendship One Liner World
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
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
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Fall Moments River Snow
But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Fact Fight Life
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Person Powerful Rich
The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Honesty King Man Poor
Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Book End Lying One Liner
O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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Heaven Myself Patriot Warm
Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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Disappointment One Liner Worst
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
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

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