| 113 Famous Quotes by Robert Burns
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“O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us.
And foolish notion;
What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us,
And ev'n devotion!”
Appearance Quotes Source: To a Louse
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“The mother may forget the child
That smiles sae sweetly on her knee;
But I'll remember thee, Glencairn,
And all that thou hast done for me!”
Memory Quotes Source: Lament for Glencairn
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“Cursed be the man, the poorest wretch in life,
The crouching vassal, to the tyrant wife,
Who has no will but by her high permission;
Who has not sixpence but in her possession;
Who must to her his dear friend's secret tell;
Who dreads a curtain lecture worse than hell.
Were such the wife had fallen to my part,
I'd break her spirit or I'd break her heart.”
Matrimony Quotes Source: The Henpecked Husband
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“Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots,
Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;-
If there's a hole in a' your coats,
I rede you tent it:
A chield's amang you takin notes,
And, faith, he'll prent it.”
Journalism Quotes Source: On Captain Grose's Peregrinations Thro' Scotland
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“Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.”
Anger Quotes Source: Tam o'Shanter (l. 12)
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“What's a' your jargon o' your schools,
Your Latin names for horns and stools;
If honest nature made you fools.”
Teaching Quotes Source: Epistle to J.L. -----k
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“Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.”
Hope Quotes Source: Cotter's Saturday Night (st. 16)
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“All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn,
Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.”
Autumn Quotes Source: Brigs of Ayr (l. 221)
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“He wakes a portion with judicious care;
And "Let us worship God!" he says, with solemn air.”
Worship Quotes Source: The Cotter's Saturday Night (st. 12)
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“The fear o' hell's the hangman's whip
To laud the wretch in order;
But where ye feel your honor grip,
Let that aye be your border.”
Fear Quotes Source: Epistle to a Young Friend
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“And like a passing thought, she fled
In light away.”
Visions Quotes Source: The Vision (last lines)
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“We twa hae run about the braes,
And pu'd the gowans fine.”
Friends Quotes Source: Auld Lang Syne
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“His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony,
Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither--
They had been fou for weeks thegither!”
Friends Quotes Source: Tam o' Shanter
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“An Atheist's laugh's a poor exchange
For Deity offended!”
Religion Quotes Source: Epistle to a Young Friend
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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 rather would be
An atheist clean,
Than under gospel colours hid be,
Just for a screen.”
Religion Quotes Source: Epistle to Rev. John M'Math (st. 8)
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“Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!”
Cruelty Quotes Source: Man Was Made to Mourn
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“It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty.
[Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cruante que d'estre humain, et
humanite d'estre cruel.]”
Cruelty Quotes Source: Man Was Made to Mourn
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“But pleasures are like poppies spread;
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.
Or like the snow falls in the river,
A moment white--then melts forever.”
Pleasure Quotes Source: Tam o' Shanter (l. 59)
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“O Scotia! my dear, my native soil!
For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent;
Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil
Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content.”
Scotland Quotes Source: Cotter's Saturday Night (st. 20)
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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!”
Scotland Quotes Source: Here's a Health to Them that's Awa'
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“Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots,
Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;-
If there's a hole in a' your coats,
I rede you tent it:
A chield's amang you takin notes,
And, faith, he'll prent it.”
Scotland Quotes Source: On Captain Grose's Peregrinations Thro' Scotland
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“Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes!
My peace with these, my love with those.
The bursting tears my heart declare;
Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.”
Rivers Quotes Source: The Banks of Ayr
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“Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes,
Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.”
Rivers Quotes Source: Flow Gently, Sweet Afton
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“Ayr, gurgling, kissed his pebbled shore,
O'erhung with wild woods, thickening green;
The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar
Twined amorous round the raptures scene.”
Rivers Quotes Source: To Mary in Heaven
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“Then horn for horn they stretch and strive;
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive.”
Haste Quotes Source: To a Haggis
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