O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
ROBERT BURNS
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.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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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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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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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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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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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
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To step aside is human.
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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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