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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.


Robert Burns

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Nae man can tether time or tide.
ROBERT BURNS An Atheist's laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended!
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ROBERT BURNS Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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ROBERT BURNS The landlord's laugh was ready chorus.
ROBERT BURNS 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.
ROBERT BURNS Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
ROBERT BURNS 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...
ROBERT BURNS How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
ROBERT BURNS The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.
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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...
ROBERT BURNS 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.
ROBERT BURNS Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.
ROBERT BURNS The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air.
ROBERT BURNS 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.
ROBERT BURNS And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.
ROBERT BURNS Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair.
ROBERT BURNS 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.
ROBERT BURNS All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.
ROBERT BURNS 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.
ROBERT BURNS The wide world is all before us-- But a world without a friend.
ROBERT BURNS Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
ROBERT BURNS In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
ROBERT BURNS Then horn for horn they stretch and strive; Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive.
ROBERT BURNS 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...
ROBERT BURNS 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...
ROBERT BURNS G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I...
ROBERT BURNS Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The burstin...
ROBERT BURNS Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;- If there's a hole ...
ROBERT BURNS 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.
ROBERT BURNS Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
ROBERT BURNS The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, And violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
ROBERT BURNS Now blooms the lily by the bank, The primrose down the brae; The hawthorn's budding in the gle...
ROBERT BURNS 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.
ROBERT BURNS 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!
ROBERT BURNS 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.
ROBERT BURNS 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.
ROBERT BURNS 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.
ROBERT BURNS Comin' through the rye, poor body, Comin' through the rye, She draigl't a' her petticoatie, ...
ROBERT BURNS 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.
ROBERT BURNS We twa hae run about the braes, And pu'd the gowans fine.
ROBERT BURNS 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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ROBERT BURNS Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!
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ROBERT BURNS Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
ROBERT BURNS 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.
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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!
ROBERT BURNS 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.
ROBERT BURNS As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.
ROBERT BURNS 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...
ROBERT BURNS Or were I in the wildest waste, Sae bleak and bare, sae bleak and bare, The desert were a para...
ROBERT BURNS Facts are cheels that winna ding, An' downs be disputed.
ROBERT BURNS 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 ...
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ROBERT BURNS 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.
ROBERT BURNS 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.
ROBERT BURNS 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.
ROBERT BURNS She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This ...
ROBERT BURNS 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".
ROBERT BURNS 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 And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation'...
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
ROBERT BURNS 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...
ROBERT BURNS Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.
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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.
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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...
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ROBERT BURNS Auld nature swears, the lovely dears / Her noblest work she classes O; / Her prentice han' she tried...
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My heart is sair for Somebody.
ROBERT BURNS Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
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