There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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To step aside is human.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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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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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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Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
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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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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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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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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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