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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.

Robert Burns

Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
ROBERT BURNS

Desire Learning Nature Spark
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
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
Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
ROBERT BURNS

Hope Yourself
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.
ROBERT BURNS

Beautiful Charm Creation Grace Motion Myself Night Sex
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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Brave Dare Fear Honesty
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.
ROBERT BURNS

Blessing Friendship God Goodness Love Poetry Time
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
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
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 wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Friendship One Liner World
Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
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Hands Right True Unity
There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
ROBERT BURNS

Brand Divine Love
Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
ROBERT BURNS

Hope Success Wings
When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Desperate Face
Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
ROBERT BURNS

Human Mourning Silver
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.
ROBERT BURNS

Character Complaint Coward Endurance Myself Possession
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.
ROBERT BURNS

Best Friendship Himself Honesty Knowledge Lie Live Man Virtue World
But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Fact Fight Life
The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Generosity God Heart Kind
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
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
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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Care Control Root Wisdom
And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Herself Light Pass Run Thinking
The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
ROBERT BURNS

Art Burn Silver
My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
ROBERT BURNS

Dreams Fantasy Heart Myself Yourself
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
ROBERT BURNS

Fall Moments River Snow

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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