My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
ROBERT BURNSThe trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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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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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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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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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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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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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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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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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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