Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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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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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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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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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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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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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Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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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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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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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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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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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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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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The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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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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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Life is but a day at most.
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