How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
ROBERT BURNSThe best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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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 snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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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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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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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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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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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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Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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