When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
ROBERT BURNSThe wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
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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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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
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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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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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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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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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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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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou’d sae kindly, Had we never lou’d sae blindly, Never met – or never parted – We had ne’er been broken hearted.
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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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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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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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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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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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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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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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