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Quote by Robert Burns
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to

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. – Robert Burns

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Had we never lovd sae kindly, Had we never lovd sae blindly, Never met — or never parted — we had never been broken-hearted. – Robert Burns

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Sadness
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Robert Burns
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Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces. – Robert Burns

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Grace
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Robert Burns
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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

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Laughter
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One of the saddest lines in the world is, Oh come now – be realistic. The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride. – Richard Nelson Bolles

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Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow. – Les Brown

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Determination

The mighty Oak was once a little nut that stood its ground. – Anon.

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In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins–not through strength but by perseverance. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Women known
The way to rear up children (to be just)
They know a simple, merry, tender knack
Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes
And stringing pretty words that make no sense.
And kissing full sense into empty words. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair. – Louis de Bernieres

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