Robert Burns Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Uncertainty Of Life Quotes

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

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To step aside is human.

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Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd

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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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Anticipation forward points the view.

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As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.

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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 Lang Syne' are good, but the music is an old air, the rudiments of the modern tune of that name. ... Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. ... Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure thrill the deepest notes of woe. ... Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

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I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing; But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling!

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I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union.

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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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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.

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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.

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Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.

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Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.

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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.

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Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear.

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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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On Earth, Discord! A gloomy Heaven above, opening her jealous gates to the nineteen thousandth part of the tithe of mankind! And below, an inescapable & inexorable Hell, expanding its leviathan jaws for the vast residue of Mortals!

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Burns' Hog-Weighing Method: (1) Get a perfectly symmetrical plank and balance it across a sawhorse. (2) Put the hog on one end of the plank. (3) Pile rocks on the other end until the plank is again perfectly balanced. (4) Carefully guess the weight of the rocks.

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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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