Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
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 women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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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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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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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
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To step aside is human.
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Life is but a day at most.
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But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
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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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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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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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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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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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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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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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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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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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