God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
ROBERT BURNSThe heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church’s ban Or hell’s damnation.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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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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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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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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