The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
ROBERT BURNSHow wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou’d sae kindly, Had we never lou’d sae blindly, Never met – or never parted – We had ne’er been broken hearted.
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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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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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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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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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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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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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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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Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men 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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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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