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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

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
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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Brave Dare Fear Honesty
The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Honesty King Man Poor
Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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Best Count Death Humanity Kind Law Man Nature
To step aside is human.
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Human One Liner
Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Beautiful Fade Nature Season
Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Gift Ourselves Power See
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!
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Health Heaven Myself Peace Warm
There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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Brand Divine Love
The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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Art Burn Silver
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.
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Frame Greatness Human Man Mindset Nature Planning Work
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
The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Friendship One Liner World
An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there’s another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
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Best Friendship Himself Honesty Knowledge Lie Live Man Virtue World
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
The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Best Man Planning Wasted

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