Robert Burns Short Quotes

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And like a passing thought, she fled
In light away.

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The heart benevolent and kind
The most resembles God.

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Beauty's of a fading nature
Has a season and is gone!

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An atheist-laugh's a poor exchange
For Deity offended.

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Stern Ruin's plowshare drives elate,
Full on thy bloom.

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Now a' is done that men can do,
And a' is done in vain.

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Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.

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We twa hae run about the braes,
And pu'd the gowans fine.

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Perhaps it may turn out a sang,
Perhaps turn out a sermon.

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Last Words:
John, don't let the awkward squad fire over me.

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John Barleycorn got up again,
And sore surprised them all.

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Ae fond kiss, and then we sever;
Ae farewell, alas, forever!

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And may you better reck the rede,
Than ever did the adviser!

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

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Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind?

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Go fetch to me a pint o' wine,
An' fill it in a silver tassie.

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The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

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My heart is sair-I dare na tell, My heart is sair for Somebody.

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O Mary, at thy window be!
It is the wished, the trysted hour.

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When chill November's surly blast
Made fields and forests bare.

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It was a' for our rightfu' King
We left fair Scotland's strand.

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Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.

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O Death! the poor man's dearest friend,
The kindest and the best!

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

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May coward shame distain his name,
The wretch that dares not die!

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Here, some are thinkin' on their sins,
An' some upo' their claes.

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The lightly-jumping, glowrin' trouts, That thro' my waters play...

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The wisest man the warl' e'er saw,
He dearly loved the lasses, O.

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

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And my fause luver stole my rose,
But ah! he left the thorn wi' me.

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