To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
ROBERT BURNSThe best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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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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Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
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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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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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To step aside is human.
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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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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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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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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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