I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
ROBERT BURNSA women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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The golden hours on angel wings Flew o’er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav’n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
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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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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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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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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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Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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