Robert Burns Quotes, Kings Quotes, Honesty Quotes

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, "An honest man 's the noblest work of God."

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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

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Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best!

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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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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

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Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral mercy, truth, and justice!

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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 rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.

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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.

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Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.

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My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!

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

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

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What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.

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Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie!

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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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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!

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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.

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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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