Suspense is worst than disappointment.
ROBERT BURNSGo fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav’n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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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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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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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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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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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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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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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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