The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
ROBERT BURNSWhen chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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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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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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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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My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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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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Oh my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; Oh my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune.
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