Robert Burns Quotes, Life Quotes, Morning Quotes

O, Life! how pleasant is thy morning, Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! Cold pausing Caution's lesson scorning, We frisk away, Like schoolboys, at the expected warning, To joy and play.

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The lightly-jumping, glowrin' trouts, That thro' my waters play.

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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

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I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body; If nae-body cares for me, I'll care for nae-body.

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Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, Baited with many a deadly curse?

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The honest man, though e'er sae poor, Is king o' men, for a' that!

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All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it.

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Now Simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the chrystal streamlets plays; Come let us spend the lightsome days In the birks of Aberfeldy.

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Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approachesTam maun ride; That hour, o'night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hourTam mounts his beast in.

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What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.

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Here's to us, who's like us Damn few, and they're all dead.

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On Earth, Discord! A gloomy Heaven above, opening her jealous gates to the nineteen thousandth part of the tithe of mankind! And below, an inescapable & inexorable Hell, expanding its leviathan jaws for the vast residue of Mortals!

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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An' downa be disputed.

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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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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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Oatcakes are a delicate relish when eaten warm with ale.

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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!

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

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