Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
ROBERT BURNSOh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
More Robert Burns Quotes
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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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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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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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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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 honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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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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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
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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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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.
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