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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.

Robert Burns

Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Gift Ourselves Power See
God knows, I’m not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
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Atheist God Hide Myself Time
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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heavy Protection Weight
Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Hope Yourself
My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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Dreams Fantasy Heart Myself Yourself
If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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Best Himself Live World
But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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Forever Love See
Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Death Ourselves Team
Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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Disappointment One Liner Worst
Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
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Desire Enemy Friendship Heart Love Myself Peace Tears
The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Friendship One Liner World
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
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
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
A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Himself Man Work
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
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
The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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Best Destroy Planning
Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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One Liner Short
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
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
When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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Cold Forest November Winds
The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Honesty King Man Poor
Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Human Mourning Silver
The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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Art Burn Silver
The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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Love Man Wisdom
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

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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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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