My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
ROBERT BURNSSuspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow’s head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.
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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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God knows, I’m not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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To step aside is human.
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