Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
ROBERT BURNSSuspense is worst than disappointment.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav’n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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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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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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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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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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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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Life is but a day at most.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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