Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
ROBERT BURNSBut 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.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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To step aside is human.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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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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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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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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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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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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