Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
ROBERT BURNSO, 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.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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Oh my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; Oh my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune.
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To step aside is human.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church’s ban Or hell’s damnation.
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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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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there’s another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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