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.
ROBERT BURNSThe upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church’s ban Or hell’s damnation.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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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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Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
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But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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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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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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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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My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav’n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
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To step aside is human.
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