Robert Burns Quotes, Fate Quotes, Weight Quotes

Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate, Full on thy bloom, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight Shall be thy doom!

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Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd

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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

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Why has a religious turn of mind always a tendency to narrow and harden the heart?

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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 for nae-body.

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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.

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It 's guid to be merry and wise, It 's guid to be honest and true, It 's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.

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As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.

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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.

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Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.

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Not the bee upon the blossom, In the pride o' sunny noon; Not the little sporting fairy, All beneath the simmer moon; Not the poet, in the moment Fancy lightens in his e'e, Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture, That thy presence gi'es to me.

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The honest man, though e'er sae poor, Is king o' men, for a' that!

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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.

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To step aside is human.

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Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven.

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Great for good, or great for evil.

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O, my luve is like a red, red rose.

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See Social-life and Glee sit down, All joyous and unthinking, Till, quite transmugrified, they're grown Debauchery and Drinking

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

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