The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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 books are lies frae end to end.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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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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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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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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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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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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God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow’s head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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