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.
ROBERT BURNSOh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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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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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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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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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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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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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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