There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
ROBERT BURNSThere’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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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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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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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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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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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou’d sae kindly, Had we never lou’d sae blindly, Never met – or never parted – We had ne’er been broken hearted.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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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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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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