If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
ROBERT BURNSThere’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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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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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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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.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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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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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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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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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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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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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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