Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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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But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
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To step aside is human.
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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.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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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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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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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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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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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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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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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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My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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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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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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