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!
ROBERT BURNSI’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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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 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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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.
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My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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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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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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