Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
ROBERT BURNSBut 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.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Life is but a day at most.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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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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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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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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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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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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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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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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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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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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