Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
ROBERT BURNSBut facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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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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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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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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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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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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Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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