Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
ROBERT BURNSIf there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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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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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 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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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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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Life is but a day at most.
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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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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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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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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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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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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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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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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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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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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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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