Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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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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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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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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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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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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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.
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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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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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God knows, I’m not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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