Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
ROBERT BURNSGod 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.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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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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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou’d sae kindly, Had we never lou’d sae blindly, Never met – or never parted – We had ne’er been broken hearted.
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Life is but a day at most.
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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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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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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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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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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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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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