Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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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God knows, I’m not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
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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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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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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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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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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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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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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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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love 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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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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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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