Robert Burns Quotes

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Now wrestling winds, and slaughtering guns Bring Autumn’s pleasant weather.
- Robert Burns

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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.
- Robert Burns

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The mother may forget the child That smiles sea sweetly on her knee; But I’ll remember thee, Glen cairn, And all that thou hast done for me!
- Robert Burns

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Misled by Fancy’s meteor-ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray, Was light from Heaven.
- Robert Burns

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Love’s first snow drop, virgin kiss.
- Robert Burns

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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
- Robert Burns

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Then horn for horn they stretch and strive; Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive.
- Robert Burns

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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
- Robert Burns

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Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
- Robert Burns