Anticipation forward points the view.
ROBERT BURNSMankind is a science that defies definitions.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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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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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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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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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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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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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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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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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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