Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
ROBERT BURNSOh 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.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry. Friendship had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me – God of love only knows where.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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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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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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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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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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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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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.
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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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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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