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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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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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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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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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
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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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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
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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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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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