God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
ROBERT BURNSThe golden hours on angel wings Flew o’er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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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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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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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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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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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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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’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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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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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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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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