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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

Robert Burns

God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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Be Yourself God Myself Personality
To step aside is human.
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Human One Liner
What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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Admire Life Love Morning Nature Night Sun
Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Hope Yourself
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Person Powerful Rich
The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Honesty King Man Poor
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
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
Nae man can tether time or tide.
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Change Man One Liner Time
Life is but a day at most.
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Life One Liner Time
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 chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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Cold Forest November Winds
God knows, I’m not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
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Atheist God Hide Myself Time
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
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Character Complaint Coward Endurance Myself Possession
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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Care Control Root Wisdom
The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Best Man Planning Wasted

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