Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
ROBERT BURNSTo step aside is human.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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It ‘s guid to be merry and wise, It ‘s guid to be honest and true, It ‘s guid to support Caledonia’s cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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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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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator’s workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.
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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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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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To step aside is human.
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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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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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