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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.

Robert Burns

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
Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Change Law Nature
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
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
Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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End One Liner Present Time
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
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
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 best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Best Planning Time
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
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Philosophy Uncertain
The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Honesty King Man Poor
The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Generosity God Heart Kind
Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Desire Learning Nature Spark
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

And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.

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