Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
ROBERT BURNSThe heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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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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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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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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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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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Life is but a day at most.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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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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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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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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