To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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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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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
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Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Life is but a day at most.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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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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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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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou’d sae kindly, Had we never lou’d sae blindly, Never met – or never parted – We had ne’er been broken hearted.
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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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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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