Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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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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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The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church’s ban Or hell’s damnation.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
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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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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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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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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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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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