If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
ROBERT BURNSThe upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church’s ban Or hell’s damnation.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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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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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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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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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.
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Life is but a day at most.
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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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And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation’s path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
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