I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
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 mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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Life is but a day at most.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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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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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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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 women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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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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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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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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