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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

Robert Burns

A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Average Greatness Man Power Woman
And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Herself Light Pass Run Thinking
Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
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Acceptance God Hypocrisy Man Murder Shame Thankful Yourself
A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Himself Man Work
Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Beautiful Fade Nature Season
But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou’d sae kindly, Had we never lou’d sae blindly, Never met – or never parted – We had ne’er been broken hearted.
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Break Forever Heart Kind Love See
I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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Discrimination Doubt Grave Laughter Myself Time
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
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
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
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
Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Silver Wine
But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Fact Fight Life
Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Human Mourning Silver
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
Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Hope Yourself

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

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