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.
ROBERT BURNSA mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
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God knows, I’m not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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To step aside is human.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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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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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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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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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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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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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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