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

Robert Burns

To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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Forever Herself Love Nature See
The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Friendship One Liner World
But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Fact Fight Life
O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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Heaven Myself Patriot Warm
Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Silver Wine
Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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One Liner Short
Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Desire Learning Nature Spark
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
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
A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Himself Man Work
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
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
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Exercise Mindset Quote Struggle Turbulent
Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Hope Success Wings
Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
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Desire Enemy Friendship Heart Love Myself Peace Tears
Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Gift Ourselves Power See
Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Hope Yourself

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