What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
ROBERT BURNSPainters and poets have liberty to lie.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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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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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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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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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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The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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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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Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry. Friendship had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me – God of love only knows where.
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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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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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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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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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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Life is but a day at most.
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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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Oh my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; Oh my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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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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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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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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