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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.

Robert Burns

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 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
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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Care Control Root Wisdom
The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Best Man Planning Wasted
Life is but a day at most.
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Life One Liner Time
The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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Bath Flower Ourselves Violence
There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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Brand Divine Love
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
A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Average Greatness Man Power Woman
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
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
Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Change Law Nature
Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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One Liner Short
Oh my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; Oh my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune.
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Play Red Rose
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Philosophy Uncertain
When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Desperate Face

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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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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