But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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More Robert Burns Quotes
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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It ‘s guid to be merry and wise, It ‘s guid to be honest and true, It ‘s guid to support Caledonia’s cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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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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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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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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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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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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