The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
ROBERT BURNSHere’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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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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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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It ‘s guid to be merry and wise, It ‘s guid to be honest and true, It ‘s guid to support Caledonia’s cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
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Oh my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; Oh my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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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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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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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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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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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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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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