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.
ROBERT BURNSBeauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
More Robert Burns Quotes
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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To step aside is human.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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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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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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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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Anticipation forward points the view.
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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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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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