Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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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She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator’s workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.
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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 best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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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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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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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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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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