If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
ROBERT BURNSHope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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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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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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It ‘s guid to be merry and wise, It ‘s guid to be honest and true, It ‘s guid to support Caledonia’s cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
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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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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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