I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
ROBERT BURNSThe best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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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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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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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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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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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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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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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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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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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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Anticipation forward points the view.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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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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