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" 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
Always
Resolve
Character
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" And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation. "
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Begins
About
Creation
" There is scarcely anything to which I am so feelingly alive as the honour and welfare of my country, and, as a poet, I have no higher enjoyment than singing her sons and daughters. "
Robert Burns
Alive
Singing
Enjoyment
" Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame. "
Robert Burns
Paths
Fame
Critics
" His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. "
Robert Burns
Locked
Him
Brass
" I am very willing to admit that I have some poetical abilities, and as few - if any - writers, either moral or political, are intimately acquainted with the classes of mankind among whom I have chiefly mingled, I may have seen men and manners in a different phasis from what is common, which may assist originality of thought. "
Robert Burns
Political
Men
I Am
" The appellation of a Scottish Bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition. "
Robert Burns
Scottish
Pride
Far
" There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience. "
Robert Burns
Nothing
Man
Me
" In my conscience, I believe that my heart has been so oft on fire that it is absolutely vitrified. "
Robert Burns
Believe
Fire
I Believe
" I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them. "
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Me
Measure
Meet
" The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn. "
Robert Burns
Our
Bathe
Violets
" O thou great, unknown Power! Thou Almighty God, who hast lighted up reason in my breast and blessed me with immortality! I have frequently wandered from that order and regularity necessary for the perfection of thy works, yet thou hast never left me nor forsaken me. "
Robert Burns
Great
Blessed
God
" I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to it. "
Robert Burns
Affection
Thought
Virtue
" Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects. "
Robert Burns
Suspicion
Weight
Heavy
" Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose! "
Robert Burns
About
Who
Them
" There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing. "
Robert Burns
Thing
Sure Thing
Sure
" Dare to be honest and fear no labor. "
Robert Burns
To Be Honest
Dare
Fear
" 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
Existence
Struggle
Ready
" 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. "
Robert Burns
Joy
Sacrifice
Manners
" Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! "
Robert Burns
Distress
How
Bliss
" The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend. "
Robert Burns
Wide
Friend
World
" Suspense is worse than disappointment. "
Robert Burns
Than
Worse
Disappointment
" Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn! "
Robert Burns
Mourn
Thousands
Inhumanity
" 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. "
Robert Burns
Young
Company
Her