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.
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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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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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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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow’s head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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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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