The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
ROBERT BURNSNae man can tether time or tide.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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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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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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The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church’s ban Or hell’s damnation.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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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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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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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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Life is but a day at most.
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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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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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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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