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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

Robert Burns

My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav’n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
ROBERT BURNS

Health Heaven Myself Peace Warm
And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Herself Light Pass Run Thinking
Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Desire Learning Nature Spark
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.
ROBERT BURNS

Break Forever Heart Kind Love See
The golden hours on angel wings Flew o’er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.
ROBERT BURNS

Gold Life Light Myself Wings
The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
ROBERT BURNS

Cry Death Loud Nature Sky Voice
Suspense is worst than disappointment.
ROBERT BURNS

Disappointment One Liner Worst
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.
ROBERT BURNS

Blessing Friendship God Goodness Love Poetry Time
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.
ROBERT BURNS

Discrimination Doubt Grave Laughter Myself Time
Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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One Liner Short
Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
ROBERT BURNS

Liberty Lying Paint Poet
The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
ROBERT BURNS

Best Destroy Planning
When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
ROBERT BURNS

Frame Greatness Human Man Mindset Nature Planning Work
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
ROBERT BURNS

Care Control Root Wisdom
Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
ROBERT BURNS

Hands Right True Unity
There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
ROBERT BURNS

Brand Divine Love

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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