Robert Burns Quotes, Rocks Quotes, Balance Quotes

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

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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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Beauty's of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!

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Some books are lies frae end to end.

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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.

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The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.

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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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Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.

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The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honour grip, Let that aye be your border.

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But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.

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

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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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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!

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

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

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Suspense is worst than disappointment.

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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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Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victory! Now 's the day and now 's the hour; See the front o' battle lour.

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