O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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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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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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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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Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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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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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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