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Life is but a day at most.

Robert Burns

Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Desire Learning Nature Spark
A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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Integrity Meaning Mindset Performance
I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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Commission Life Oneself Time
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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Care Control Root Wisdom
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Philosophy Uncertain
My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
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Fools Right Rule Son Wisdom
Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Gift Ourselves Power See
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
Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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Kind Man Meaning One Liner Science
But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Fact Fight Life
To step aside is human.
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Human One Liner
Life is but a day at most.
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Life One Liner Time
A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Average Greatness Man Power Woman
The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Friendship One Liner World
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
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

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