Robert Burns Quotes, Summer Quotes, Moon Quotes

Once upon a Lammas Night When corn rigs are bonny, Beneath the Moon's unclouded light, I held awhile to Annie... The time went by with careless heed Between the late and early, With small persuasion she agreed To see me through the barley... Corn rigs and barley rigs, Corn rigs are bonny! I'll not forget that happy night Among the rigs with Annie!

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

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Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven.

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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.

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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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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.

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Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.

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

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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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Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom!

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Never generally means "at no point in time." The term comes from the words 'no' and 'ever', meaning that something is not ever going to happen. Sourced

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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

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Some books are lies frae end to end.

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To make three guineas do the work of five.

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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.

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But little Mouse, you are not alone, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes of mice and men Go often askew, And leave us nothing but grief and pain, For promised joy! Still you are blest, compared with me!

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But deep this truth impressed my mind — Thro' all his works abroad, The heart benevolent and kind The most resembles God.

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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent

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Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!

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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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