Robert Burns Quotes About Son

Quotes about: Son

• My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!

  Robert Burns

  Country, Sweet, Son

  Robert Burns, P. Austin Nuttall (1866). “The poetical works of Robert Burns”, p.63

• God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.

  Robert Burns

  Teacher, Father, Teaching

  Robert Burns (1819). “The Prose Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Letters and Correspondence, Literary and Critical, and Amatory Epistles Including Letters to Clarinda, &c., &c”, p.215

• By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die!

  Robert Burns

  Pain, Fall, Son

  'Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn' (1799)

• My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.

  Robert Burns

  Wise, Son, Fool

  Robert Burns, Mr. Thomson (George) (1809). “Poems formerly published, with some additions,and a history of these poems, by Gilbert Burns”, p.113

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

  Robert Burns

  Brother, Son, Affliction

  Robert Burns, P. A. N., Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT (1866). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott. New Edition. With Numerous Additions. [The Preface Signed: P. A. N.]”, p.54

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