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 BURNSInspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
More Robert Burns Quotes
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And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation’s path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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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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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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To step aside is human.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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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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Anticipation forward points the view.
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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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