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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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 best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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Life is but a day at most.
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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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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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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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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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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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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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