Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
ROBERT BURNSHope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
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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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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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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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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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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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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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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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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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