Robert Burns Quotes

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• From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,…
• A man's a man for a' that. . . . . A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But…
• Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
• Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.
• Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
• They never sought in vain that sought the Lord alright!
• Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.
• But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e…
• The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
• Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.
• 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…
• In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
• The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
• 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…
• Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The words of 'Auld…
• How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
• Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
• The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.
• Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human.
• Pharmaceutical projects are like fresh fruit - they depreciate if they are not tended to, and they do poorly if sitting on the shelf with…

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