But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
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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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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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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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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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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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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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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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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Life is but a day at most.
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