Some books are lies frae end to end.
ROBERT BURNSSome wee short hour ayont the twal.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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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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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church’s ban Or hell’s damnation.
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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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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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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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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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And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation’s path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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