How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
ROBERT BURNSHow wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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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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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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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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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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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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Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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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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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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