Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
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More Robert Burns Quotes
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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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 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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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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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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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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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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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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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
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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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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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