Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.
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Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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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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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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