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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More Robert Burns Quotes
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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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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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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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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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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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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And 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.
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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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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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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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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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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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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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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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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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Life is but a day at most.
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Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
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