I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
ROBERT BURNSBut 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.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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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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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
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Life is but a day at most.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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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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My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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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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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
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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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