And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
ROBERT BURNSWhen 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.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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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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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 wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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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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The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church’s ban Or hell’s damnation.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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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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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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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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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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