The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
ROBERT BURNSThe best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry. Friendship had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me – God of love only knows where.
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My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
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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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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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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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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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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
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