Robert Burns Quotes, Matter Quotes, Faces Quotes

When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.

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It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty.

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

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Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.

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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.

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

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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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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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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An' downa be disputed.

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The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art.

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[Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part of their effect.

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An atheist's laugh 's a poor exchange For Deity offended!

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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.

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Life is but a day at most.

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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life.

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I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing; But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling!

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Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee.

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Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human.

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To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!

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