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.
ROBERT BURNSFirmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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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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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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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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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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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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And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation’s path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
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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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The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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