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.
ROBERT BURNSThe best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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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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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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