Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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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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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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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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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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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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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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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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Anticipation forward points the view.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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