When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
ROBERT BURNSTo make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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Oh my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; Oh my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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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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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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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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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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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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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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