Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
ROBERT BURNSSome wee short hour ayont the twal.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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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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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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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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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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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 wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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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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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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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator’s workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.
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The golden hours on angel wings Flew o’er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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