Nae man can tether time or tide.
ROBERT BURNSA women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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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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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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But 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.
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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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Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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Life is but a day at most.
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation’s path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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It ‘s guid to be merry and wise, It ‘s guid to be honest and true, It ‘s guid to support Caledonia’s cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
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