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.
ROBERT BURNSI 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.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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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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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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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.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation’s path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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God knows, I’m not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
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