And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
ROBERT BURNSA women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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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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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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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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Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry. Friendship had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me – God of love only knows where.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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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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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
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