To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
ROBERT BURNSPrudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
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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.
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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.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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