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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!

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
The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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Bath Flower Ourselves Violence
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
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.
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Blessing Friendship God Goodness Love Poetry Time
The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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Best Destroy Planning
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
Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Change Law Nature
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Person Powerful Rich
Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Hope Yourself
O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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Life Myself Obstacle Path Road Struggle
Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Desire Learning Nature Spark
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
The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Best Planning Time
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
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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heavy Protection Weight
A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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Integrity Meaning Mindset Performance

O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!

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