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 BURNSTo see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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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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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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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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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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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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Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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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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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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