Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
ROBERT BURNSMan’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
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Ye 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.
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The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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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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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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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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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
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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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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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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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