It ‘s guid to be merry and wise, It ‘s guid to be honest and true, It ‘s guid to support Caledonia’s cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
ROBERT BURNSO Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
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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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Life is but a day at most.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator’s workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry. Friendship had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me – God of love only knows where.
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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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