I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
ROBERT BURNS
Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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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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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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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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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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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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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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