Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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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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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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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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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Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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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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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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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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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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