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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent

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
O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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Heaven Myself Patriot Warm
The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Generosity God Heart Kind
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
Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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Disappointment One Liner Worst
But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Fact Fight Life
Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Death Ourselves Team
When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Desperate Face
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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Brave Dare Fear Honesty
I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator’s workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.
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Beautiful Charm Creation Grace Motion Myself Night Sex
To step aside is human.
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Human One Liner
I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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Commission Life Oneself Time
But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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Forever Love See
The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Honesty King Man Poor
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
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
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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Care Control Root Wisdom
The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Friendship One Liner World
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Philosophy Uncertain
Life is but a day at most.
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Life One Liner Time
Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Silver Wine
My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
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Fools Right Rule Son Wisdom
I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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Domination Myself Nature Social Sorry True
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Fall Moments River Snow
Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
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Fun Money Myself Name Rhyme Thinking
The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church’s ban Or hell’s damnation.
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Best Fear Heart Hell Honesty Man Need
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

O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent

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