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a Scottish poet
How pathetic the jester is, on the king's throne,<br />How stupid the people who allowed it.
Robert Burns
Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, Baited with many a deadly curse?
Robert Burns
The great Creator to revere<br />Must sure become the creature;<br />But still the preaching cant forbear,<br />And ev'n the rigid feature:<br />Yet ne'er with wits profane to range<br />Be complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchange<br />For deity offended.
Robert Burns
Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring.
Robert Burns
The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.
Robert Burns
A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Robert Burns
Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.
Robert Burns
Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral mercy, truth, and justice!
Robert Burns
My heart is sair-I dare na tell, My heart is sair for Somebody.
Robert Burns
A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
Robert Burns
Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!
Robert Burns
O, my luve is like a red, red rose.
Robert Burns
I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
Robert Burns
While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit some attention.
Robert Burns
Burns' Hog-Weighing Method: (1) Get a perfectly symmetrical plank and balance it across a sawhorse. (2) Put the hog on one end of the plank. (3) Pile rocks on the other end until the plank is again perfectly balanced. (4) Carefully guess the weight of the rocks.
Robert Burns
If there 's a hole in a' your coats, I rede ye tent it; A chiel 's amang ye takin' notes, And, faith, he 'll prent it.
Robert Burns
Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven.
Robert Burns
And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
Robert Burns
All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it.
Robert Burns
'T is sweeter for thee despairing Than aught in the world beside,-Jessy!
Robert Burns
Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.
Robert Burns
Here's to us, who's like us Damn few, and they're all dead.
Robert Burns
Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .
Robert Burns
God knows, I'm not 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.
Robert Burns
An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there's another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
Robert Burns
I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator's workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.
Robert Burns
Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his depths and his shallows, his good and his evil, All in all, he's a problem must puzzle the devil.
Robert Burns
The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honour grip, Let that aye be your border.
Robert Burns
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.
Robert Burns
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