Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
ROBERT BURNSMy 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!
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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Oh my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; Oh my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune.
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But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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To step aside is human.
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Life is but a day at most.
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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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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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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.
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