Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
ROBERT BURNSAgain rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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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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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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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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The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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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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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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