God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
ROBERT BURNSBe Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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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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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
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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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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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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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Life is but a day at most.
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