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

Robert Burns

It ‘s guid to be merry and wise, It ‘s guid to be honest and true, It ‘s guid to support Caledonia’s cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
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Guide Honesty Support True Wisdom
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Fall Moments River Snow
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
There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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Brand Divine Love
A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Himself Man Work
Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Silver Wine
And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Herself Light Pass Run Thinking
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
To step aside is human.
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Human One Liner
Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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End One Liner Present Time
Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Liberty Lying Paint Poet
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 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
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
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
O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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Heaven Myself Patriot Warm

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