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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.

Robert Burns

There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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Brand Divine Love
The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Generosity God Heart Kind
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
Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Desire Learning Nature Spark
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Person Powerful Rich
But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Fact Fight Life
When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Desperate Face
She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
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Appearance Beautiful Herself Love Myself Wife
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
The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Best Planning Time
But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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Forever Love See
Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Gift Ourselves Power See
The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Friendship One Liner World
Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
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Hands Right True Unity
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
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Philosophy Uncertain

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