Quotes by Burns, Robert




Robert Burns (January 25, 1759 - July 21, 1796) was a poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is the best-known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a 'light' Scots dialect which would have been accessible to a wider audience than simply Scottish people. At various times in his career, he wrote in English, and in these pieces, his political or civil commentary is often at its most blunt..

"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."

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"How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful."

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"Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces."

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"Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted."

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"Dare to be honest and fear no labor."

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"The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God."

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"I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration."

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"Suspense is worst than disappointment."

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"I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence."

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"When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare."

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"Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root."

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"Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!"

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"Let us do or die."

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"There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing."

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

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

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