The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
ROBERT BURNSThe wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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To step aside is human.
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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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Oh my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; Oh my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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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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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 best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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