The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
ROBERT BURNSGie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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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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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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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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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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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 best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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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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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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