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.
ROBERT BURNSThe heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav’n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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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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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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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
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It ‘s guid to be merry and wise, It ‘s guid to be honest and true, It ‘s guid to support Caledonia’s cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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