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Robert Burns

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Hope Yourself
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
The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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Cry Death Loud Nature Sky Voice
Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Human Mourning Silver
Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Hope Success Wings
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
But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Fact Fight Life
The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Best Planning Time
God knows, I’m not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
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Atheist God Hide Myself Time
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
O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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Heaven Myself Patriot Warm
A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Himself Man Work
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
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
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
Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Beautiful Fade Nature Season

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