Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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To step aside is human.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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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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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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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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But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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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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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou’d sae kindly, Had we never lou’d sae blindly, Never met – or never parted – We had ne’er been broken hearted.
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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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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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