And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation’s path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
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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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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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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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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Oh my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; Oh my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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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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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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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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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator’s workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow’s head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.
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