Robert Burns Quotes

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• Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
• 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.
• Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
• Suspense is worse than disappointment.
• I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
• There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
• Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
• The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.
• The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
• Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
• My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
• Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.
• Suspense is worst than disappointment.
• Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
• I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of inebriety is like…
• Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
• If there's another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
• Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.
• 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…
• For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's…

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