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.
ROBERT BURNSMy Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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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.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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To step aside is human.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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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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And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation’s path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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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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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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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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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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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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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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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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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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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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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.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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