Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
ROBERT BURNSI 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.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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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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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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God knows, I’m not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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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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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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