The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
ROBERT BURNSSome wee short hour ayont the twal.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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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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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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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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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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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav’n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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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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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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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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