Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
ROBERT BURNSThe trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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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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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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God knows, I’m not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation’s path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there’s another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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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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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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