To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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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My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
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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 golden hours on angel wings Flew o’er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.
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Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
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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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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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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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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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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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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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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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