And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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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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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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there’s another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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Life is but a day at most.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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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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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator’s workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.
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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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