Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
ROBERT BURNSNae man can tether time or tide.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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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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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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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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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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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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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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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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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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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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