There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
ROBERT BURNSO Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
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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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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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The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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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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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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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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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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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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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 snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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