To step aside is human.
ROBERT BURNSI’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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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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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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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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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
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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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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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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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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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