There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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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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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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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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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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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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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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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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