Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
ROBERT BURNSThe snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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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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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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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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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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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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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Life is but a day at most.
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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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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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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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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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