Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
ROBERT BURNSYour 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.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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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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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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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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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou’d sae kindly, Had we never lou’d sae blindly, Never met – or never parted – We had ne’er been broken hearted.
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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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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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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