Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

Robert Burns Quotes

Scottish - Poet January 25, 1759 - July 21, 1796

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects. Robert Burns

Armor, More, Protects

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend. Robert Burns

World, Before, Wide

Suspense is worse than disappointment. Robert Burns

Disappointment, Worse, Than

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing. Robert Burns

Thing, Sure, Sure Thing

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. Robert Burns

Mind, Offensive, Quotations

It is natural for a young fellow to like the acquaintance of females and customary for him to keep them company when occasion serves. Some one of them is more agreeable to him than the rest; there is something, he knows not what, pleases him, he knows not how, in her company. This I take to be what is called love with the greatest part of us. Robert Burns

Love, Some, Occasion

There is scarcely anything to which I am so feelingly alive as the honour and welfare of my country, and, as a poet, I have no higher enjoyment than singing her sons and daughters. Robert Burns

Country, Honour, Which

I am very willing to admit that I have some poetical abilities, and as few - if any - writers, either moral or political, are intimately acquainted with the classes of mankind among whom I have chiefly mingled, I may have seen men and manners in a different phasis from what is common, which may assist originality of thought. Robert Burns

Thought, Some, Very

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn. Robert Burns

Wet, Bathe, Our

Dare to be honest and fear no labor. Robert Burns

Honest, Dare, To Be Honest

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn! - Robert Burns

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn! Robert Burns

Inhumanity, Countless, Makes

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame. Robert Burns

Fame, Paths, Critics

The joy of my heart is to 'study men, their manners, and their ways,' and for this darling object I cheerfully sacrifice every other consideration. Robert Burns

Study, Other, Cheerfully

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

Always, Despised, Enduring

O thou great, unknown Power! Thou Almighty God, who hast lighted up reason in my breast and blessed me with immortality! I have frequently wandered from that order and regularity necessary for the perfection of thy works, yet thou hast never left me nor forsaken me. Robert Burns

Immortality, Reason, Works

In my conscience, I believe that my heart has been so oft on fire that it is absolutely vitrified. Robert Burns

Believe, Conscience, Been

Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose! Robert Burns

Lose, Characters, Decorum

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! Robert Burns

Distress, Sons, How

I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them. Robert Burns

Prepared, Some, Them

I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to it. Robert Burns

Thought, Extremely, Part

There is something so mean and unmanly in the arts of dissimulation and falsehood that I am surprised they can be used by anyone in so noble, so generous a passion as virtuous love. Robert Burns

Love, Used, Falsehood

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience. Robert Burns

Which, Unaccountable

And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation. Robert Burns

Begins, About, Lords

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. Robert Burns

His, Collar, Brass

The appellation of a Scottish Bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition. Robert Burns

Deserve, Most, Exalted

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