When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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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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To step aside is human.
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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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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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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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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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Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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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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