God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
ROBERT BURNSWhen 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.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Oh my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; Oh my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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God knows, I’m not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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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.
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow’s head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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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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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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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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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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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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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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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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Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry. Friendship had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me – God of love only knows where.
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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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