The golden hours on angel wings Flew o’er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.
ROBERT BURNSDare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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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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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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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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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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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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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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