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.
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 wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow’s head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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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 best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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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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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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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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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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An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there’s another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
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My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator’s workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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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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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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