My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
ROBERT BURNSI have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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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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Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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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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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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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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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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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 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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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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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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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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