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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More Robert Burns Quotes
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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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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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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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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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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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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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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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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