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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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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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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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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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Life is but a day at most.
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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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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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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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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