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.
ROBERT BURNSI have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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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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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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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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Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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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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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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