When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
ROBERT BURNSThe snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
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God knows, I’m not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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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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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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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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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
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Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
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