My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
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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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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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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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
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My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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