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The golden hours on angel wings Flew o’er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.

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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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Heaven Myself Patriot Warm
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
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Person Powerful Rich
Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Silver Wine
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
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Dare Death Fear Himself Honesty Man Music Sing
The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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Love Man Wisdom
A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Average Greatness Man Power Woman
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
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
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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heavy Protection Weight
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
Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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One Liner Short
The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Generosity God Heart Kind
Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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Kind Man Meaning One Liner Science
And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Herself Light Pass Run Thinking
Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Hope Success Wings

The golden hours on angel wings Flew o’er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.

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