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.
ROBERT BURNSBut facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
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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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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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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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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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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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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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To step aside is human.
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