Robert Burns quotes - page 4

Ye're aiblins nae temptation. (Robert Burns)
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. View quote
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve. View quote
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The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend. View quote
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn. View quote
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Her cutty sark, o' Paisley harn, That while a lassie she had worn, In longitude tho' sorely scanty, It was her best, and she was vauntie. View quote
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Drumossie moor - Drumossie day - A waefu' day it was to me! For there I lost my father dear, My father dear, and brethren three. View quote
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Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty's in every blow- Let us do or die! View quote
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I was na fou, but just had plenty. View quote
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Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon. View quote
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Where sits our sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. (Robert Burns)
He wales a portion with judicious care; And "Let us worship God" he says, with solemn air. View quote
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. View quote
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The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley. View quote
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Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie! View quote
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Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.--Robert Burns. View quote
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Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale. View quote
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And may you better reck the rede, Than ever did the adviser! View quote
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Ae fond kiss, and then we sever; Ae farewell, alas, forever! View quote
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Green grow the rashes, O; Green grow the rashes, O; The sweetest hours that e'er I spend Are spent among the lasses, O. View quote
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John Barleycorn got up again, And sore surprised them all. (Robert Burns)
But, oh! fell death's untimely frost, That nipt my flower sae early. View quote
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John Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first acquent, Your locks were like the raven, Your bonie brow was brent; But now your brow is beld, John, Your locks are like the snaw, But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson, my jo! View quote
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It was a' for our rightfu' King We left fair Scotland's strand. View quote
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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. What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us An' ev'n Devotion. View quote
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Robert Burns

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Occupation: Scottish Poet
Born: January 25, 1759
Died: July 21, 1796
Quotes count: 119
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