Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
ROBERT BURNSAnd 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.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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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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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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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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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.
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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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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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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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