The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
ROBERT BURNSSuspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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Oh my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; Oh my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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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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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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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 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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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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