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