[Scottish songs] are, I own, frequently wild, & unreduceable to the more modern rules; but on that very eccentricity, perhaps, depends a great part of their effect.
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 c… - 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 c…
- Robert Burns
Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire. - Robert Burns
Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing. - Robert Burns
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy. - Robert Burns
The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us! - Robert Burns
Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
A women can make an average man great, and a great man average. - Robert Burns
A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither! - Robert Burns
To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
Now's the day and now's the hour. - Robert Burns
Now's the day and now's the hour.
Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won't accept your thanks for murder. - Robert Burns
Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won't accept your thanks for murder.
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