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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

Robert Burns

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
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Critics Fame Path Struggle
The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Honesty King Man Poor
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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Care Control Root Wisdom
But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Fact Fight Life
But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou’d sae kindly, Had we never lou’d sae blindly, Never met – or never parted – We had ne’er been broken hearted.
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Break Forever Heart Kind Love See
Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Silver Wine
Oh my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; Oh my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune.
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Play Red Rose
The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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Cry Death Loud Nature Sky Voice
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
Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Beautiful Fade Nature Season
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
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
Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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Best Count Death Humanity Kind Law Man Nature
Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Change Law Nature
A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Average Greatness Man Power Woman

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