Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
ROBERT BURNSGo fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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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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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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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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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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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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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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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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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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