Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Oh my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; Oh my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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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 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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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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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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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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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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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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