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Robert Burns
Scottish
Poet
About the author
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.
Robert Burns,
Scottish
Poet
#Character
#Complaint
#Firmness
Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
Robert Burns,
Scottish
Poet
#Dying
#Opera
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
Robert Burns,
Scottish
Poet
#Uncertainty
The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.
Robert Burns,
Scottish
Poet
#World
#Friend
The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
Robert Burns,
Scottish
Poet
#Violets
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Robert Burns,
Scottish
Poet
#Fame
Suspense is worse than disappointment.
Robert Burns,
Scottish
Poet
#Disappointment
#Suspense
And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.
Robert Burns,
Scottish
Poet
#Creation
Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
Robert Burns,
Scottish
Poet
#Man
Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!
Robert Burns,
Scottish
Poet
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
Robert Burns,
Scottish
Poet
#Mind
#Struggle
#Existence
#Quotations
His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
Robert Burns,
Scottish
Poet
#Gentleman
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
Robert Burns,
Scottish
Poet
#Fear
#Labor
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
Robert Burns,
Scottish
Poet
#Weight
#Suspicion
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
Robert Burns,
Scottish
Poet
#Brothers
#Sons
#Brother
#Affliction