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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.

Robert Burns

The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Generosity God Heart Kind
My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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Dreams Fantasy Heart Myself Yourself
But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Fact Fight Life
If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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Best Himself Live World
The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Best Man Planning Wasted
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
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
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Dare Death Fear Himself Honesty Man Music Sing
Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Desire Learning Nature Spark
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
A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Average Greatness Man Power Woman
Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Gift Ourselves Power See
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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heavy Protection Weight
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
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
A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Himself Man Work
Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Human Mourning Silver

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