But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
ROBERT BURNSWhat is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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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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The golden hours on angel wings Flew o’er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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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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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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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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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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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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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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Oh my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; Oh my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune.
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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