Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
ROBERT BURNSBut 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.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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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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Anticipation forward points the view.
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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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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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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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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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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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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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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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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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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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To step aside is human.
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