Robert Burns quote: "And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation's path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright"

Nae man can tether time or tide.
ROBERT BURNS

An Atheist's laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended!
ROBERT BURNS

Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.
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His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
ROBERT BURNS

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be for...
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The landlord's laugh was ready chorus.
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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a b...
ROBERT BURNS

Let us do or die.
ROBERT BURNS

Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root.
ROBERT BURNS

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
ROBERT BURNS

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
ROBERT BURNS

When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.
ROBERT BURNS

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we ha...
ROBERT BURNS

Suspense is worst than disappointment.
ROBERT BURNS

The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'men
Gang aft agley.
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Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
ROBERT BURNS

I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discr...
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.
ROBERT BURNS

I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid ...
ROBERT BURNS

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
ROBERT BURNS

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised th...
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Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!
A farewell, and then forever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll ...
ROBERT BURNS

The great Creator to revere
Must sure become the creature;
But still the preaching cant forbea...
ROBERT BURNS

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
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Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.
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The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air.
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Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's plou...
ROBERT BURNS

Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!
ROBERT BURNS

It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. [Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cru...
ROBERT BURNS

Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear.
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And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.
ROBERT BURNS

Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair.
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I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body; If nae-body cares for me, I'll care fo...
ROBERT BURNS

To liken them to your auld-warld squad, I must needs say comparisons are odd.
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All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.
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And there begins a lang digression About the lords o' the creation.
ROBERT BURNS

O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I.
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The wide world is all before us-- But a world without a friend.
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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
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In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
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Then horn for horn they stretch and strive; Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive.
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I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing: But, och! it hardens a' within, ...
ROBERT BURNS

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, am...
ROBERT BURNS

Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale. from the poem The Cotter’s Saturday Ni...
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Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blu...
ROBERT BURNS

What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature...
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G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I...
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Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The burstin...
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Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;- If there's a hole ...
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent; Long may thy h...
ROBERT BURNS

But pleasures are like poppies spread; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed. Or like the sn...
ROBERT BURNS

Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!
ROBERT BURNS

The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee; But I'll remember thee, G...
ROBERT BURNS

O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blund...
ROBERT BURNS

My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons o...
ROBERT BURNS

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of wo.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, And violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
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Now blooms the lily by the bank, The primrose down the brae; The hawthorn's budding in the gle...
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Mourn, little harebells, o'er the lea; Ye stately foxgloves fair to see! Ye woodbines, hanging...
ROBERT BURNS

The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.
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A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his ...
ROBERT BURNS

A man's a man for a' that!
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Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a' kennin'...
ROBERT BURNS

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
ROBERT BURNS

Suspense is worse than disappointment.
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Hear how he clears the points o' Faith Wi' rattling an' thumpin'! Now meekly calm, now wild in...
ROBERT BURNS

There's some are fou o' love divine, There's some are fou' o' brandy.
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The fear o' hell's the hangman's whip To laud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your hono...
ROBERT BURNS

Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.
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Comin' through the rye, poor body, Comin' through the rye, She draigl't a' her petticoatie, ...
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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.
ROBERT BURNS

Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.
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We twa hae run about the braes, And pu'd the gowans fine.
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His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony, Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither-- They had been fou for ...
ROBERT BURNS

The fear o’ hell’s a hangman’s whip to haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honor ...
ROBERT BURNS

But deep this truth impress'd my mind:
Thro' all His works abroad,
The heart benevolent a...
ROBERT BURNS

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
ROBERT BURNS

It is natural for a young fellow to like the acquaintance of females and customary for him to keep t...
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O thou great, unknown Power! Thou Almighty God, who hast lighted up reason in my breast and blessed ...
ROBERT BURNS

The joy of my heart is to 'study men, their manners, and their ways,' and for this darling o...
ROBERT BURNS

Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!
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I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily ...
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
ROBERT BURNS

Ayr, gurgling, kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thickening green; The fragr...
ROBERT BURNS

Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.
ROBERT BURNS

When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.
ROBERT BURNS

It's guid to be merry and wise, It's guid to be honest and true, It's guid to support Caledoni...
ROBERT BURNS

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

Yon rose-buds in the morning-dew, How pure amang the leaves sae green!
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I'll pu' the budding rose, when Phoebus peeps in view, For its like a baumy kiss o'er her sweet bo...
ROBERT BURNS

They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright!
ROBERT BURNS

That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.
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As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.
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Cursed be the man, the poorest wretch in life, The crouching vassal, to the tyrant wife, Who h...
ROBERT BURNS

Man,--whose heaven-erected face The smiles of love adorn,-- Man's inhumanity to man Make...
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Or were I in the wildest waste, Sae bleak and bare, sae bleak and bare, The desert were a para...
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Facts are cheels that winna ding, An' downs be disputed.
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Misled by Fancy's meteor-ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray, Was ...
ROBERT BURNS

Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray, A hapless lover ...
ROBERT BURNS

To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of ...
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At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree; Th' expectant w...
ROBERT BURNS

Green, slender, leaf-clad holly boughs Were twisted gracefu' round her brows, I took her for s...
ROBERT BURNS

John Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first acquent, Your locks were like the raven, ...
ROBERT BURNS

The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men,
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' p...
ROBERT BURNS

O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us.
(O would some power the ...
ROBERT BURNS

If there is another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
ROBERT BURNS

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.
ROBERT BURNS

Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o' daisies wh...
ROBERT BURNS

What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
ROBERT BURNS

He wakes a portion with judicious care; And "Let us worship God!" he says, with solemn air.
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And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair. Wha does the utmost that he can Will...
ROBERT BURNS

Duncan Gray cam here to woo, Ha, ha, the wooing o't! On blithe Yuletide when we were fou, ...
ROBERT BURNS

The landlady and Tam grew gracious Wi' favours secret, sweet and precious.
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She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This ...
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Were such the wife had fallen to my part, I'd break her spirit, or I'd break her heart.
ROBERT BURNS

John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, ...
ROBERT BURNS

Some hae meat, and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we can eat, ...
ROBERT BURNS

Oh, my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; Oh, my luve's like the melodie That...
ROBERT BURNS

Suspense is worst than disappointment
ROBERT BURNS

Some have meat, and cannot eat, And some cannot eat that want it; But we have meat, and we can eat -...
ROBERT BURNS

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
ROBERT BURNS

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called c...
ROBERT BURNS

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
ROBERT BURNS

Had we never lov'd sae kindly,
Had we never lov'd sae blindly,
Never met -- or never parte...
ROBERT BURNS

He turn'd him right and round about / Upon the Irish shore; / And gae his bridle-reins a shake, / Wi...
ROBERT BURNS

But to see her was to love her,
Love but her, and love forever.
Had we never lou'd sae ki...
ROBERT BURNS

And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.
ROBERT BURNS

Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes; Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise
ROBERT BURNS

The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'menGang aft agley. - "To A Mouse".
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Ah, gentle dames! it gars we greet, To think how mony consels sweet, How mony lengthened, sag...
ROBERT BURNS

And may you better reck the rede, Than ever did th' adviser.
ROBERT BURNS

Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' tippenny, we fear n...
ROBERT BURNS

The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creature;But still the preaching cant forbear,And ev...
ROBERT BURNS

Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!A farewell, and then forever!Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge t...
ROBERT BURNS

Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel's united; For never but by British hands M...
ROBERT BURNS

Whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad.
ROBERT BURNS

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

Prudent, cautious self-control Is wisdom's root.
ROBERT BURNS

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

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing
ROBERT BURNS

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever
ROBERT BURNS

Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder fr...
ROBERT BURNS

And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.
ROBERT BURNS

We're trying to help the county get the workforce, ... If you have courses for student teachers in C...
ROBERT BURNS

We like to involve the students — really, if it wasn't for the students, we wouldn't be here.
ROBERT BURNS

Inspiring bold John Barleycorn! / What dangers thou canst make us scorn! / Wi' tippenny, we fear nae...
ROBERT BURNS

Ah, gentle dames! It gars me greet / To think how mony counsels sweet, / How mony lengthen'd sage ad...
ROBERT BURNS

Prudent, cautious self-control Is wisdom's root
ROBERT BURNS

But human bodies are sic fools, For a' their colleges and schools, That when nae real ills perplex t...
ROBERT BURNS

Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry.... Friendship... had I been so blest as to h...
ROBERT BURNS

The best plans of men and mice often go awry
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Ye hypocrites! are these your pranks? To Murder men, and give God thanks? Desist for same! proceed n...
ROBERT BURNS

The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley; And leave us naught but grief and pain For pr...
ROBERT BURNS

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn
ROBERT BURNS

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.
ROBERT BURNS

There was three Kings into the east, / Three kings both great and high, / And they hae sworn a solem...
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Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.
ROBERT BURNS

This group definitely has something that's unique, you're not gonna find something like this anywher...
ROBERT BURNS

I think if we had a skate park we'd be a lot more safer then just going out on the streets and skate...
ROBERT BURNS

We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free.
ROBERT BURNS

Public opinion would have gone against us had we continued.
ROBERT BURNS

Some hae meat and canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat and we can eat...
ROBERT BURNS

The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men,
Gang aft agley.
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' ...
ROBERT BURNS

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.
ROBERT BURNS

Gin a body meet a body
Coming thro' the rye,
Gin a body kiss a body—
Need a body c...
ROBERT BURNS

In my conscience, I believe that my heart has been so oft on fire that it is absolutely vitrified.
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A lot of this depends on us getting the land and the funding from the Legislature, ... We're talking...
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It works like this ,
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"Stop thief," Dame Nature cried to Death As Willy drew his latest breath, "How shall I make a fool a...
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Fain would I hide what I fear to discover
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It's really addictive. Personally, it's the highlight of my week to be able to play with some talent...
ROBERT BURNS

All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear fro...
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They've come to realize how much it can hurt them to withhold information. I think they're starting ...
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It's amazing how fast you can get up over the calorie limit, especially when you're on the road or e...
ROBERT BURNS

My brother knew this young lady. They went to high school together. It's not like they met one anoth...
ROBERT BURNS

I think that he believed there was some extramarital thing going on.
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We labour soon, we labour late, / To feed the titled knave, man; / And a' the comfort we're to get /...
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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 ...
ROBERT BURNS

To make a happy fire-side clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life
ROBERT BURNS

I winna blaw about mysel, as ill I like my faults to tell
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This is the first data being collected anywhere in the country under a new national air quality moni...
ROBERT BURNS

This website is not your usual read-some-copy, look-at-some-pictures travel site,
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The fact that you can experience the desert, snow, mountains and ocean in the course of a day has al...
ROBERT BURNS

While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quack...
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What signifies the life o' man, An' 'twere na for the lasses O
ROBERT BURNS

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, and be each critic the good-natured man
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Auld nature swears, the lovely dears / Her noblest work she classes O; / Her prentice han' she tried...
ROBERT BURNS

Gi'e me a spark o' Nature's fire that's a' the learning I desire.
ROBERT BURNS

The appellation of a Scottish Bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most ...
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My heart is sair-I dare na tell,
My heart is sair for Somebody.
ROBERT BURNS

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

Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry.... Friendship... had I been so blest as to h...
ROBERT BURNS

Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met - or never parted, We had nev...
ROBERT BURNS "AE FOND KISS"

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, y...
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And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation's path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright

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And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation's path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright

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