Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
ROBERT BURNSI 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.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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It ‘s guid to be merry and wise, It ‘s guid to be honest and true, It ‘s guid to support Caledonia’s cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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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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The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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