A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
ROBERT BURNSYour lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry. Friendship had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me – God of love only knows where.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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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 have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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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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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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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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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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The golden hours on angel wings Flew o’er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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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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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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