Anticipation forward points the view.
ROBERT BURNSNae man can tether time or tide.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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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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God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow’s head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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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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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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When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
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