William Dunbar Quotes

• Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

  William Dunbar

  Emotional, Ironic, Despair

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• Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

  William Dunbar

  Men, Law, Skills

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• To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow.

  William Dunbar

  Humble, Tonight, Be Kind

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• A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.

  William Dunbar

  Men, Feet, Doe

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• London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie.

  William Dunbar

  Art, Flower, Cities

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• Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.

  William Dunbar

  Morning, Men, Noble Man

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• Our pleasance here is all vain glory,
  This false warld is but transitory.

  William Dunbar

  World, Glory, Vain

  "The Life and Poems of William Dunbar".

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• Timor mortis conturbat me. The fear of death disturbs me.

  William Dunbar

  Chaos, Fear Of Death

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• All love is lost but upon God alone.

  William Dunbar

  Love, Lost, Lost Love

  'The Merle and the Nightingale' st. 2

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• Gem of all joy, jasper of jocundity.

  William Dunbar

  Joy, Gems

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• Among my friends love is a payment. It is an old debt for a borrowing foolishly spent.

  William Dunbar

  Love Is, Debt, Friend Love

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• Neither our vices nor our virtues further the poem.

  William Dunbar

  Vices, Virtue

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• I that in heill wes and gladnes Am trublit now with gret seiknes And feblit with infermite: Timor Mortis conturbat me.* * Fear of Death troubles me.

  William Dunbar

  Fear, Trouble, Fear Of Death

  c.1505 'Lament for the Makaris', stanza 1. The Latin is from the Office for the Dead:'The fear of death disturbs me'.

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