Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
ROBERT BURNSI’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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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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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there’s another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
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To step aside is human.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou’d sae kindly, Had we never lou’d sae blindly, Never met – or never parted – We had ne’er been broken hearted.
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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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Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
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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.
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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