Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
ROBERT BURNSThere is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou’d sae kindly, Had we never lou’d sae blindly, Never met – or never parted – We had ne’er been broken hearted.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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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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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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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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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
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The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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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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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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Life is but a day at most.
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It ‘s guid to be merry and wise, It ‘s guid to be honest and true, It ‘s guid to support Caledonia’s cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
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