The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
ROBERT BURNSGod 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.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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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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And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation’s path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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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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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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