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

Robert Burns

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
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
Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Change Law Nature
Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Human Mourning Silver
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
My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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Dreams Fantasy Heart Myself Yourself
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
A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Himself Man Work
Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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End One Liner Present 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
Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Death Ourselves Team
But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Fact Fight Life
The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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Best Joy Leaving Man Pain Promise
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
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Dare Death Fear Himself Honesty Man Music Sing
Anticipation forward points the view.
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One Liner Point View
There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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Brand Divine Love

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

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