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 BURNSAnd like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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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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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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Life is but a day at most.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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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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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there’s another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
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Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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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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