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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

Robert Burns

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
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Bloom Flower Forever Happiness Moments River
There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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Brand Divine Love
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
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
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Fall Moments River Snow
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
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
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
Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Human Mourning Silver
The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Friendship One Liner World
But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Fact Fight Life
Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Change Law Nature
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
To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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Happiness Human Life True Wife
And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation’s path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
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Fear God Mindset Responsibility Temptation Yourself
Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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End One Liner Present Time

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