“Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the right kind of stuff who can rise above the things which harass and handicap the weak, and do his work in spite of them. Indeed, this is the test of greatness.”
Quote by Orison Swett Marden
“Dreams that are realized become an inspiration for new endeavor. It is in the power to make the dream good that we find the hope of this world.”
Source: He Can Who Thinks He Can, and Other Papers on Success in Life: From the Renowned Author of Inspirational Works like How to Get what You Want, Prosperity and How to Get It, The Miracles of Right Thought, Self-Investment and Masterful Personality
“Anticipation forward points the view.”
Source: The poems & songs of Robert Burns, to which is subjoined a panegyrical ode by H. Paul
“Beauty's of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!”
Source: The Caledonian Musical Museum: Being a Collection of the Best Songs, Ancient and Modern
“There's some are fou o' love divine; There's some are fou o' brandy.”
“It's hardly in a body's pow'r,To keep, at times, frae being sour.”
Source: The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and Criticism on His Writing ; to which are Prefixed Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry by James Currie, M. D. ; with Many Additional Poems and Songs and an Enlarged and Corrected Glossary
“When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.”
“The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Burns (Illustrated)
“Never generally means "at no point in time." The term comes from the words 'no' and 'ever', meaning that something is not ever going to happen. Sourced”
“If naebody care for me,I'll care for naebody.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott. New Edition. With Numerous Additions. [The Preface Signed: P. A. N.]
“I'm just an Irish biddy.”
