Nae man can tether time or tide.
ROBERT BURNSThe best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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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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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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To step aside is human.
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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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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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.
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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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Life is but a day at most.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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