When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
ROBERT BURNSO, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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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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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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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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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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God knows, I’m not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
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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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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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