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 BURNSBeauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
More Robert Burns Quotes
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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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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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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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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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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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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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
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