God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
ROBERT BURNSA women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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To step aside is human.
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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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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.
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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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My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
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Life is but a day at most.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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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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