Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Life is but a day at most.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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It ‘s guid to be merry and wise, It ‘s guid to be honest and true, It ‘s guid to support Caledonia’s cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
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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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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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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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She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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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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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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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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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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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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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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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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I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator’s workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there’s another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
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Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
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