What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
ROBERT BURNSShe is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav’n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
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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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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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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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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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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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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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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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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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