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.
ROBERT BURNSPleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Life is but a day at most.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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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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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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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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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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