Robert Burns Quotes, Summer Quotes, Play Quotes

Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.

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Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee.

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

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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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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.

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Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.

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Pharmaceutical projects are like fresh fruit - they depreciate if they are not tended to, and they do poorly if sitting on the shelf with long periods of inactivity.

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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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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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To step aside is human.

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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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God knows, I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.

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Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.

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When chill November's surly blast Made fields and forests bare.

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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

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The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.

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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

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Suspense is worst than disappointment.

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!

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