Robert Burns Quotes, Dream Quotes, Spring Quotes

Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring.

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The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know And keenly felt the friendly glow And softer flame; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name!

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She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o' mine.

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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.

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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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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.

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The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.

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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.

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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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Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The words of 'Auld Lang Syne' are good, but the music is an old air, the rudiments of the modern tune of that name. ... Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. ... Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure thrill the deepest notes of woe. ... Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

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Humid seal of soft affections, Tend'rest pledge of future bliss, Dearest tie of young connections, Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.

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An atheist's laugh 's a poor exchange For Deity offended!

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Anticipation forward points the view.

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It's hardly in a body's pow'r,To keep, at times, frae being sour.

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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 Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!

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Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.

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For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs the manor.

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Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.

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Suspense is worse than disappointment.

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