Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
ROBERT BURNSLife is but a day at most.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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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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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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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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The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church’s ban Or hell’s damnation.
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Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
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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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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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