Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
ROBERT BURNSDare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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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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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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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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The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
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And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation’s path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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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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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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