Some books are lies frae end to end.
ROBERT BURNSI pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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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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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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To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there’s another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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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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