Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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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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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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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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God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow’s head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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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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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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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 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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