I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator’s workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.
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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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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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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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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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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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation’s path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
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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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