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I pick up favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. Of these there is a very favourite one from Thomson: "Attach thee firmly to the virtuous deeds / And offices of life; to life itself, / With all its vain and transient joys, sit loose."
I pick up favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. Of these there is a very favourite one from Thomson: "Attach thee firmly to the virtuous deeds / And offices of life; to life itself, / With all its vain and transient joys, sit loose."
Approximate author period: c. 1777 AD · early modern
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- Robert Burns
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- Approximate author period: c. 1777 AD · early modern
author lifetime midpoint (1759–1796)
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Burns. · page_168
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