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.
ROBERT BURNSKings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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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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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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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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Life is but a day at most.
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