Quote by Robert Burns
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the power

How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful. – Robert Burns

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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. – Robert Burns

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Had we never lovd sae kindly, Had we never lovd sae blindly, Never met — or never parted — we had never been broken-hearted. – Robert Burns

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The dew of compassion is a tear. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. – Rudyard Kipling

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Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart. – From the television show My So-Called Life

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Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe anothers tears, Till in Heaven the deed appears, Pass it on. – Henry Burton

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One man with courage is a majority. – Thomas Jefferson

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My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching. – Twyla Tharp

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I trust no one, not even myself. – Joseph Stalin

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