318 Quotes by Robert Burns
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Not the bee upon the blossom,In the pride o' sunny noon;Not the little sporting fairy,All beneath the simmer moon;Not the poet, in the momentFancy lightens in his e'e,Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture,That thy presence gi'es to me.
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For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs the manor.
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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
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Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o'daisies white Out o'er the grassy lea.
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Great for good, or great for evil.
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
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And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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