Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
ROBERT BURNSNature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
More Robert Burns Quotes
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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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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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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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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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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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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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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To step aside is human.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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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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