God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
ROBERT BURNSThe trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator’s workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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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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Anticipation forward points the view.
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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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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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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
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