Robert Burns - Life Quotes

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O life! thou art a galling load,
Along a rough, a weary road,
To wretches such as I!

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O Life! how pleasant is thy morning,
Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning!
Cold-pausing Caution's lesson scorning,
We frisk away,
Like schoolboys at th' expected warning,
To joy and play.

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

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

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Life is all a variorum,
We regard not how it goes;
Let them cant about decorum,
Who have characters to lose.

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

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There's nought but care on ev'ry han',
In every hour that passes, O:
What signifies the life o' man,
An' 't were nae for the lasses, O.

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The golden Hours on angel wings
Flew o'er me and my Dearie;
For dear to me as light and life
Was my sweet Highland Mary.

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

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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

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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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