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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

Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Fall Moments River Snow
Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Hope Success Wings
Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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Disappointment One Liner Worst
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
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
It ‘s guid to be merry and wise, It ‘s guid to be honest and true, It ‘s guid to support Caledonia’s cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
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Guide Honesty Support True Wisdom
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Person Powerful Rich
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
A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Himself Man Work
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
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
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
I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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Domination Myself Nature Social Sorry True
Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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Bloom Flower Happiness Nature Wisdom
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

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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