Some books are lies frae end to end.
ROBERT BURNSI pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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Life is but a day at most.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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God knows, I’m not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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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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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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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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To step aside is human.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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