Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
ROBERT BURNSShe is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
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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To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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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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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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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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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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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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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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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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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Life is but a day at most.
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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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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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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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When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
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