Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
ROBERT BURNSLearn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. 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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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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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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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 honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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