Robert Burns Quotes, Country Quotes, Sweet Quotes

My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!

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[Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part of their effect.

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

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Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie!

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Great for good, or great for evil.

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Some books are lies frae end to end.

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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!

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My heart 's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart 's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.

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

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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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But of all Nonsense, Religious Nonsense is the most nonsensical; so enough, & more than enough of it - Only, by the bye, will you, or can you tell me, my dear Cunningham, why a religioso turn of mind has always a tendency to narrow and illiberalise the heart?

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Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.

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A man's a man for a' that. . . . . A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith he mauna fa' that! . . . Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that, That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree and a' that. For a' that, and a' that, It's comin' yet, for a' that, When man to man, the world o'er, Shall brithers be for a' that.

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In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

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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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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.

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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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For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, And none but he!"

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It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty.

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The landlord's laugh was ready chorus.

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