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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More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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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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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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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.
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My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav’n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
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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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Anticipation forward points the view.
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Oh my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; Oh my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune.
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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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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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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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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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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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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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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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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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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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