Some books are lies frae end to end.
ROBERT BURNSGod 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.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church’s ban Or hell’s damnation.
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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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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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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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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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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.
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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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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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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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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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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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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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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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