Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
ROBERT BURNSBeauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
More Robert Burns Quotes
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
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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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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou’d sae kindly, Had we never lou’d sae blindly, Never met – or never parted – We had ne’er been broken hearted.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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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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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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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry. Friendship had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me – God of love only knows where.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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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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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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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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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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