Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
ROBERT BURNSO Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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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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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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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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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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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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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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Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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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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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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