My 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!
ROBERT BURNSA eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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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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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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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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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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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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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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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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To step aside is human.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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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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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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