Scottish - Poet | January 25, 1759 - July 21, 1796
Suspense is worse than disappointment.
Robert Burns
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I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to it.
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The appellation of a Scottish Bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.
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Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.
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There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.
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It is natural for a young fellow to like the acquaintance of females and customary for him to keep them company when occasion serves. Some one of them is more agreeable to him than the rest; there is something, he knows not what, pleases him, he knows not how, in her company. This I take to be what is called love with the greatest part of us.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
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His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
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The joy of my heart is to 'study men, their manners, and their ways,' and for this darling object I cheerfully sacrifice every other consideration.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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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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