The golden hours on angel wings Flew o’er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.
ROBERT BURNSOh my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; Oh my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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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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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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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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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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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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