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ROBERT BURNS
ROBERT BURNS
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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
Robert BurnsRobert Burns Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry. Friendship had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me – God of love only knows where.
Robert BurnsRobert Burns The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
Robert BurnsRobert Burns Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
Robert BurnsRobert Burns 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 BurnsRobert Burns O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
Robert BurnsRobert Burns O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.
Robert BurnsRobert Burns The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
Robert BurnsRobert Burns I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
Robert BurnsRobert Burns The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
Robert BurnsRobert Burns O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
Robert BurnsRobert Burns Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
Robert BurnsRobert Burns Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
Robert BurnsRobert Burns A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
Robert BurnsRobert Burns My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
Robert BurnsRobert Burns Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
Robert BurnsRobert Burns
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