The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
ROBERT BURNSI look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator’s workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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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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To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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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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When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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To step aside is human.
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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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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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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