Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
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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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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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there’s another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
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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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The golden hours on angel wings Flew o’er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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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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But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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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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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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