The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
ROBERT BURNSThe heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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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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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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The golden hours on angel wings Flew o’er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.
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And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation’s path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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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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My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav’n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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