Robert Burns Quotes, Nature Quotes, Honesty Quotes

For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, And none but he!"

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All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.

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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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Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.

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Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approachesTam maun ride; That hour, o'night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hourTam mounts his beast in.

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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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What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.

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Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven.

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Yon rosebuds in the morning-dew, how pure amang the leaves sae green!

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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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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life.

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Oatcakes are a delicate relish when eaten warm with ale.

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Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel's united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.

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It's hardly in a body's pow'r,To keep, at times, frae being sour.

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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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Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!

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John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, Twill make a man forget his wo; 'Twill heighten all his joy.

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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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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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