Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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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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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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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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The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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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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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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