There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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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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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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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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When 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.
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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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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 wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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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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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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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 snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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