I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator’s workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.
ROBERT BURNSPainters and poets have liberty to lie.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Life is but a day at most.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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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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Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
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To step aside is human.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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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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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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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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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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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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