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 BURNSAnd like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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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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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church’s ban Or hell’s damnation.
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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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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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