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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

Robert Burns

I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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Domination Myself Nature Social Sorry True
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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heavy Protection Weight
The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Generosity God Heart Kind
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
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
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
Life is but a day at most.
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Life One Liner Time
To step aside is human.
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Human One Liner
A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Himself Man Work
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
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Fall Moments River Snow
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 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
Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Hope Success Wings
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Critics Fame Path Struggle
An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there’s another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
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Best Friendship Himself Honesty Knowledge Lie Live Man Virtue World
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
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 snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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Bath Flower Ourselves Violence
I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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Discrimination Doubt Grave Laughter Myself Time
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
But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Fact Fight Life
A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Average Greatness Man Power Woman
When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
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Frame Greatness Human Man Mindset Nature Planning Work
Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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End One Liner Present Time
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
The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Honesty King Man Poor

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