Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
ROBERT BURNSOh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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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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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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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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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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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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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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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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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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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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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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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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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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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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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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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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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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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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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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