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.
ROBERT BURNSDare to be honest and fear no labor.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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To step aside is human.
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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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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Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
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An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there’s another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
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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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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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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Life is but a day at most.
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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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The golden hours on angel wings Flew o’er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.
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To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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