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.
ROBERT BURNSA women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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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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To step aside is human.
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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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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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Life is but a day at most.
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Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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