What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
ROBERT BURNSDare to be honest and fear no labor.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Life is but a day at most.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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To step aside is human.
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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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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church’s ban Or hell’s damnation.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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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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