A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
ROBERT BURNSDare to be honest and fear no labor.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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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 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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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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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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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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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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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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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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An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there’s another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
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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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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
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To step aside is human.
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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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