And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
ROBERT BURNSWhen matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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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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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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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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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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Life is but a day at most.
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Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
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