My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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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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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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Oh my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; Oh my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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God knows, I’m not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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Life is but a day at most.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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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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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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