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.
ROBERT BURNSLife is but a day at most.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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Anticipation forward points the view.
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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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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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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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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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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.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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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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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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