Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
ROBERT BURNSHow wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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To step aside is human.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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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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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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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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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation’s path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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