Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
ROBERT BURNSSome wee short hour ayont the twal.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
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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!
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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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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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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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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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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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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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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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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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