I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
ROBERT BURNSMy Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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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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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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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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To step aside is human.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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