To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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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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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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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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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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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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Life is but a day at most.
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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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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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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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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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