A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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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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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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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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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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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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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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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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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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