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 BURNSYour lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry. Friendship had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me – God of love only knows where.
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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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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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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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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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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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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My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
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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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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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Life is but a day at most.
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