Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
ROBERT BURNSSuspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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God knows, I’m not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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To step aside is human.
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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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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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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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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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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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My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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