Quotes from Robert Burns


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

    Wet | Violets | Adorn


    And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.

    Creation | Begins | Lords


    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.

    Wish | Resolve | Complaint


    Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

    Fear | Honest | Labor


    There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

    Sure


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

    Armor | Heavy | Suspicion


    Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

    Inhumanity | Mourn | Countless


    His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

    Gentleman | Scholar | Locked


    The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

    Friend | Wide


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

    Struggle | Ready | Offensive


    Suspense is worse than disappointment.

    Suspense | Worse


    Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

    Fame | Critics | Paths


    Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!

    Lose | Characters | Cant


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

    Brother | Bliss | Brothers


       

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