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.
ROBERT BURNSMy heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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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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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.
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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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To step aside is human.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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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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Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
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