Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
ROBERT BURNSA women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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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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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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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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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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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation’s path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
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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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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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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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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.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
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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 best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou’d sae kindly, Had we never lou’d sae blindly, Never met – or never parted – We had ne’er been broken hearted.
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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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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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