My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
ROBERT BURNSA women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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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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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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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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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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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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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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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there’s another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
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Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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