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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.

Robert Burns

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
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
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Person Powerful Rich
But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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Forever Love See
Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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Bloom Flower Happiness Nature Wisdom
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
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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heavy Protection Weight
My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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Dreams Fantasy Heart Myself Yourself
Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Human Mourning Silver
Life is but a day at most.
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Life One Liner Time
Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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One Liner Short
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
Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Gift Ourselves Power See
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
The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Honesty King Man Poor
But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
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Bloom Flower Forever Happiness Moments River

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