Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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 books are lies frae end to end.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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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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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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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 golden hours on angel wings Flew o’er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.
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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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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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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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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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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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