Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
ROBERT BURNSTo step aside is human.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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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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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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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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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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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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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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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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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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To step aside is human.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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