Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
ROBERT BURNSGod 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.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church’s ban Or hell’s damnation.
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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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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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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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But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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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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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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