Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
ROBERT BURNSAn 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.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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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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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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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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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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To step aside is human.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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