Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
ROBERT BURNSThe wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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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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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 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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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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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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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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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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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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To step aside is human.
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