Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
ROBERT BURNSCritics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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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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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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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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Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
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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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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.
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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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Anticipation forward points the view.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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To step aside is human.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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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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