Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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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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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
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