To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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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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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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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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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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Anticipation forward points the view.
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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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.
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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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