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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.

Robert Burns

A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Average Greatness Man Power Woman
Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
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Happiness Morning Nature Wind
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
The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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Best Destroy Planning
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Philosophy Uncertain
Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Hope Yourself
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
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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Gold Life Light Myself Wings
But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Fact Fight Life
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
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
When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Desperate Face
Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
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Hands Right True Unity
Anticipation forward points the view.
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One Liner Point View
To step aside is human.
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Human One Liner
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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