Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
ROBERT BURNSThe wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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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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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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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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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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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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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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