Robert Burns Quotes, Wish Quotes, Despair Quotes

Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.

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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.

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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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Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human.

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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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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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Some books are lies frae end to end.

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God knows, I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.

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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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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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Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.

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Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.

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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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My heart is sair-I dare na tell, My heart is sair for Somebody.

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See Social-life and Glee sit down, All joyous and unthinking, Till, quite transmugrified, they're grown Debauchery and Drinking

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John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, Twill make a man forget his wo; 'Twill heighten all his joy.

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

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Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee.

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