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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

Robert Burns

Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
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Acceptance God Hypocrisy Man Murder Shame Thankful Yourself
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
But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Fact Fight Life
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
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.
ROBERT BURNS

Play Red Rose
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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heavy Protection Weight
The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Best Planning Time
Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
ROBERT BURNS

End One Liner Present Time
Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Change Law Nature
A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Himself Man Work
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
Life is but a day at most.
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Life One Liner 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
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
The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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Love Man Wisdom

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