Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
ROBERT BURNSSuspense is worst than disappointment.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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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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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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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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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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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 trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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