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.
ROBERT BURNSMy heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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To step aside is human.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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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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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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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 plans of men and mice often go awry.
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