Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
ROBERT BURNSSome wee short hour ayont the twal.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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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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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou’d sae kindly, Had we never lou’d sae blindly, Never met – or never parted – We had ne’er been broken hearted.
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there’s another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
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