How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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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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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry. Friendship had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me – God of love only knows where.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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