I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
ROBERT BURNSBeauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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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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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry. Friendship had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me – God of love only knows where.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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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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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
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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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