Robert Burns Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Mind Quotes

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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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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Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won't accept your thanks for murder.

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Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry.... Friendship... had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me - God of love only knows where.

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At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree; Th' expectant wee-things, toddling, stacher thro' To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee.

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Nae man can tether time or tide.

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

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Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.

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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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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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Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.

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Anticipation forward points the view.

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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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Some books are lies frae end to end.

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

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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

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Once upon a Lammas Night When corn rigs are bonny, Beneath the Moon's unclouded light, I held awhile to Annie... The time went by with careless heed Between the late and early, With small persuasion she agreed To see me through the barley... Corn rigs and barley rigs, Corn rigs are bonny! I'll not forget that happy night Among the rigs with Annie!

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Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human.

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

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The lightly-jumping, glowrin' trouts, That thro' my waters play.

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