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.
ROBERT BURNSYe Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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To step aside is human.
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Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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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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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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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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Life is but a day at most.
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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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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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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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