Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
ROBERT BURNSBe Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
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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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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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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow’s head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.
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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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An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there’s another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
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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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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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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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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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Life is but a day at most.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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