But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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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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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Oh my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; Oh my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune.
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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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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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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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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
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To step aside is human.
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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
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My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav’n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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