Robert Burns Quotes
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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
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Author Details:
Type:
Poet Quotes
Category:
Scottish Poet Quotes
Date of Birth:
January 25, 1759
Date of Death:
July 21, 1796
Nationality:
Scottish
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Norman MacCaig
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Alexander Smith
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Select Robert Burns Quotations:
The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.
Robert Burns
Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
Robert Burns
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
Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
Robert Burns
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
Robert Burns
The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
Robert Burns
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Quote Keywords:

Always,
Character,
Complaint,
Cowardly,
Despised,
Enduring,
Exertion,
Firmness,
Possess,
Resolve,
Whining,
Wish
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Dictionary Links:

Always,
Character,
Complaint,
Cowardly,
Despised,
Enduring,
Exertion,
Firmness,
Possess,
Resolve,
Whining,
Wish
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All Robert Burns Quotations:
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress...
And there begins a lang digression...
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in...
Dare to be honest and fear...
Firmness in enduring and exertion is...
His locked, lettered, braw brass collar...
I pick my favourite quotations and...
Let them cant about decorum, Who...
Man's inhumanity to man makes countless...
Opera is where a guy gets...
Suspense is worse than disappointment.
Suspicion is a heavy armor and...
The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands...
The wide world is all before...
There is no such uncertainty as...
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