Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
ROBERT BURNSGo fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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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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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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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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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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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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And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation’s path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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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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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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God 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.
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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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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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To step aside is human.
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