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!
ROBERT BURNSBut facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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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 heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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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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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.
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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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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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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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 best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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The golden hours on angel wings Flew o’er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.
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