There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
ROBERT BURNSI 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.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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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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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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My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator’s workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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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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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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