My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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 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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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry. Friendship had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me – God of love only knows where.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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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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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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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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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.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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