A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
ROBERT BURNSHere’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Life is but a day at most.
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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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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry. Friendship had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me – God of love only knows where.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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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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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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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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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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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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The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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