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.
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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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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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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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.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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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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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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To step aside is human.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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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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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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