The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
ROBERT BURNSBeauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
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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 voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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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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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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The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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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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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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