Life is but a day at most.
ROBERT BURNS
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.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Life is but a day at most.
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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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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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Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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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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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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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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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
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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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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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To step aside is human.
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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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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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