Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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 snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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To step aside is human.
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My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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God knows, I’m not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
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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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The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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It ‘s guid to be merry and wise, It ‘s guid to be honest and true, It ‘s guid to support Caledonia’s cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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