Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
ROBERT BURNSAnticipation forward points the view.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou’d sae kindly, Had we never lou’d sae blindly, Never met – or never parted – We had ne’er been broken hearted.
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To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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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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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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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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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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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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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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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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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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