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To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!

Robert Burns

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
Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Book End Lying 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
It ‘s guid to be merry and wise, It ‘s guid to be honest and true, It ‘s guid to support Caledonia’s cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
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Guide Honesty Support True Wisdom
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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Brave Dare Fear Honesty
The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Generosity God Heart Kind
The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Honesty King Man Poor
Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Gift Ourselves Power See
Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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Kind Man Meaning One Liner Science
What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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Admire Life Love Morning Nature Night Sun
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
Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Change Law Nature
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Fall Moments River Snow
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Philosophy Uncertain
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
Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Liberty Lying Paint Poet
Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Beautiful Fade Nature Season
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 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
O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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Heaven Myself Patriot Warm
I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator’s workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.
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Beautiful Charm Creation Grace Motion Myself Night Sex
The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church’s ban Or hell’s damnation.
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Best Fear Heart Hell Honesty Man Need
The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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Best Destroy Planning
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
God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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Be Yourself God Myself Personality

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