Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
ROBERT BURNSShe is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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The golden hours on angel wings Flew o’er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.
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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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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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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 pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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