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.
ROBERT BURNSPainters and poets have liberty to lie.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church’s ban Or hell’s damnation.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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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 honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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To step aside is human.
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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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Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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