O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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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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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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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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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
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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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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Life is but a day at most.
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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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