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 BURNSMy Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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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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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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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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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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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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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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