Some books are lies frae end to end.
ROBERT BURNSWhen chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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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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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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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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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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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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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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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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