To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
ROBERT BURNSWhen chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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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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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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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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My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav’n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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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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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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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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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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