The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
ROBERT BURNSSome 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.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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It ‘s guid to be merry and wise, It ‘s guid to be honest and true, It ‘s guid to support Caledonia’s cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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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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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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To step aside is human.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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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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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
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