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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.

Robert Burns

I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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Discrimination Doubt Grave Laughter Myself Time
Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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One Liner Short
Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
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Fun Money Myself Name Rhyme Thinking
The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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Art Burn Silver
The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Honesty King Man Poor
And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Herself Light Pass Run Thinking
Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Liberty Lying Paint Poet
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
Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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Danger Devil Face Inspirational
Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Silver Wine
When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Desperate Face
I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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Domination Myself Nature Social Sorry True
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
Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Hope Success Wings
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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heavy Protection Weight
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

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