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.
ROBERT BURNSIt ‘s guid to be merry and wise, It ‘s guid to be honest and true, It ‘s guid to support Caledonia’s cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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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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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
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The golden hours on angel wings Flew o’er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.
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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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