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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.

Robert Burns

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
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
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
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
To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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Happiness Human Life True Wife
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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heavy Protection Weight
She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
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Appearance Beautiful Herself Love Myself Wife
Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Book End Lying One Liner
Anticipation forward points the view.
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One Liner Point View
Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Death Ourselves Team
Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Liberty Lying Paint Poet
But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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Forever Love See
Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry. Friendship had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me – God of love only knows where.
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Blessing Friendship God Goodness Love Poetry Time
O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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Heaven Myself Patriot Warm
Life is but a day at most.
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Life One Liner Time
And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation’s path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
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Fear God Mindset Responsibility Temptation Yourself

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