But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
ROBERT BURNSNature’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!
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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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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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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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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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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