I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
ROBERT BURNSIf there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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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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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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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’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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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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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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