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

Other quotes by Robert Burns

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

Category:
Grace
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The great Creator to revere
Must sure become the creature;
But still the preaching cant forbear,
And evn the rigid feature:
Yet neer with wits profane to range
Be complaisance extended;An atheist laughs a poor exchange
For deity offended. – Robert Burns

Category:
Literary
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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

Category:
Laughter
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Kindness
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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God. – Robert Burns

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Kindness

When the heart is heavy cheerful words can carry it. – Matshona Dhliwayo

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Kindness

Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives. – Bhagavad Gita

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Kindness

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. – Amelia Earhart

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Kindness

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Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him. – Louis Kossuth

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A newspaper is the lowest thing there is. – Richard J. Daley

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When trouble comes, focus on Gods ability to care for you. – Charles Stanley

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Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high. – Francis Bacon

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