It ‘s guid to be merry and wise, It ‘s guid to be honest and true, It ‘s guid to support Caledonia’s cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
ROBERT BURNSHere’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation’s path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
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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!
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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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Life is but a day at most.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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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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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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