To step aside is human.
ROBERT BURNSThe wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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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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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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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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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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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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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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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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