My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
ROBERT BURNSGod knows, I’m not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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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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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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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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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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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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To step aside is human.
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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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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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