Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
ROBERT BURNSLearn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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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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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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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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My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav’n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou’d sae kindly, Had we never lou’d sae blindly, Never met – or never parted – We had ne’er been broken hearted.
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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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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.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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