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.
ROBERT BURNSI’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow’s head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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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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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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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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Life is but a day at most.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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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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Anticipation forward points the view.
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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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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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