Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
ROBERT BURNSFarewell, 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.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love 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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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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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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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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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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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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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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