Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
ROBERT BURNSKings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Life is but a day at most.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator’s workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.
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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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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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To step aside is human.
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Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
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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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To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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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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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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