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ROBERT BURNSCritics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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It ‘s guid to be merry and wise, It ‘s guid to be honest and true, It ‘s guid to support Caledonia’s cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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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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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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And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation’s path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Life is but a day at most.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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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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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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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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The golden hours on angel wings Flew o’er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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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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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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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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