When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
ROBERT BURNSTo make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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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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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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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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My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav’n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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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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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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