Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
ROBERT BURNSGie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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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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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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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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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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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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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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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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