Life is but a day at most.
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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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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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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Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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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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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
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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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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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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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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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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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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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To step aside is human.
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