Robert Burns Quotes, Sorrow Quotes, Prison Quotes

In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

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By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die!

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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.

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When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.

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'T is sweeter for thee despairing Than aught in the world beside,-Jessy!

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The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

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Why has a religious turn of mind always a tendency to narrow and harden the heart?

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

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If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'T is when a youthful, loving, modest pair In other's arms breathe out the tender tale

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The honest man, though e'er sae poor, Is king o' men, for a' that!

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

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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 own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.

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Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min?

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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

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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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If there 's a hole in a' your coats, I rede ye tent it; A chiel 's amang ye takin' notes, And, faith, he 'll prent it.

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Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear.

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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

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Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.

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