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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.

Robert Burns

Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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Blessing Glory King Life Victory
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
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
When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Desperate Face
Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Book End Lying One Liner
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
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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heavy Protection Weight
Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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End One Liner Present Time
Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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One Liner Short
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
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
But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Fact Fight Life
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
Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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Bloom Flower Happiness Nature Wisdom
To step aside is human.
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Human One Liner
The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Generosity God Heart Kind

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