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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.

Robert Burns

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
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
Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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End One Liner Present Time
O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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Life Myself Obstacle Path Road Struggle
There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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Brand Divine Love
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
Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Hope Yourself
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
But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Fact Fight Life
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Person Powerful Rich
The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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Best Destroy Planning
Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Change Law Nature
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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Care Control Root Wisdom
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
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 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

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