But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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More Robert Burns Quotes
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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To step aside is human.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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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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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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