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.
ROBERT BURNSGod knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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It ‘s guid to be merry and wise, It ‘s guid to be honest and true, It ‘s guid to support Caledonia’s cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator’s workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church’s ban Or hell’s damnation.
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