But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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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The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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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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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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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!
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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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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.
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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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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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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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