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.
ROBERT BURNSThe best plans of men and mice often go awry.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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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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Life is but a day at most.
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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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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God knows, I’m not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
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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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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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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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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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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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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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