Life is but a day at most.
ROBERT BURNSMankind is a science that defies definitions.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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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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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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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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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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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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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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God knows, I’m not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
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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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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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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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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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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
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