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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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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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Sadness
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Robert Burns
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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

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Literary
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Robert Burns
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The more sympathy you give, the less you need. – Malcolm S. Forbes

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We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. – Epictetus

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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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Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary? – James Barrie

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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. – Voltaire

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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity — gunpowder and romantic love. – Andre Maurois

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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself. – Alfred Lord Tennyson, “The Last Tournament,” Idylls of the King

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