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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.

Robert Burns

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
To step aside is human.
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Human One Liner
O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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Heaven Myself Patriot Warm
Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Gift Ourselves Power See
O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.
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Fools Freedom Ourselves Power
A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Himself Man Work
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.
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Play Red Rose
Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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End One Liner Present Time
Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Hope Yourself
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
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
Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Death Ourselves Team
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Fall Moments River Snow
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
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
Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Hope Success Wings

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