O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
ROBERT BURNSAgain rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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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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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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It ‘s guid to be merry and wise, It ‘s guid to be honest and true, It ‘s guid to support Caledonia’s cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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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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