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 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. – Robert Burns

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I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I dont despise it. But it cant quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it. – Georges Bernanos

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Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth. – Marilyn vos Savant

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In every parting there is an image of death. – George Eliot

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Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. – Graham Greene

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We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there…. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope. – Edward Abbey

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