Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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 wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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But 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.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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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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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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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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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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