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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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 have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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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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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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The golden hours on angel wings Flew o’er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.
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Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry. Friendship had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me – God of love only knows where.
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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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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
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She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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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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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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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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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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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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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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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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