To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
ROBERT BURNSPainters and poets have liberty to lie.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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.
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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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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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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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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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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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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
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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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