The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
ROBERT BURNSThere’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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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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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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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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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator’s workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.
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Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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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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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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To step aside is human.
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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 make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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