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.
ROBERT BURNSThe wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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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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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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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 wee short hour ayont the twal.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church’s ban Or hell’s damnation.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Oh my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; Oh my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune.
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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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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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