But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
ROBERT BURNSFirmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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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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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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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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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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The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
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