Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
ROBERT BURNSThe honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
More Robert Burns Quotes
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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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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Anticipation forward points the view.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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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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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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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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An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there’s another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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