318 Quotes by Robert Burns
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His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
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Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd
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Burns' Hog-Weighing Method: (1) Get a perfectly symmetrical plank and balance it across a sawhorse. (2) Put the hog on one end of the plank. (3) Pile rocks on the other end until the plank is again perfectly balanced. (4) Carefully guess the weight of the rocks.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.
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I 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.
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Gin a body meet a body Coming thro' the rye, Gin a body kiss a body— Need a body cry?
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God knows, I'm not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou'd sae kindly, Had we never lou'd sae blindly, Never met - or never parted - We had ne'er been broken hearted
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