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.
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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Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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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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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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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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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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