I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing; But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling! Robert Burns More Quotes by Robert Burns More Quotes From Robert Burns 'T is sweeter for thee despairing Than aught in the world beside,-Jessy! Robert Burns thee world Great for good, or great for evil. Robert Burns frailty evil Now Simmer blinks on flowery braes, Robert Burns blink summer play O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. Robert Burns Ae fond kiss, and then we severA farewell, and then foreverDeep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,While the star of hope she leaves himMe, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,Dark despair around benights me. Robert Burns If there is another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this. Robert Burns The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creatureBut still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid featureYet ne'er with wits profane to rangeBe complaisance extendedAn atheist laugh's a poor exchangeFor deity offended. Robert Burns The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God. Robert Burns When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare. Robert Burns Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose! Robert Burns them lose about who It is natural for a young fellow to like the acquaintance of females and customary for him to keep them company when occasion serves. Some one of them is more agreeable to him than the rest; there is something, he knows not what, pleases him, he knows not how, in her company. This I take to be what is called love with the greatest part of us. Robert Burns rest something company love In my conscience, I believe that my heart has been so oft on fire that it is absolutely vitrified. Robert Burns conscience fire heart believe And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation. Robert Burns lords begins about creation I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to it. Robert Burns something thought affection virtue There is something so mean and unmanly in the arts of dissimulation and falsehood that I am surprised they can be used by anyone in so noble, so generous a passion as virtuous love. Robert Burns i-am something passion love I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them. Robert Burns daily i-am me poverty The joy of my heart is to 'study men, their manners, and their ways,' and for this darling object I cheerfully sacrifice every other consideration. Robert Burns sacrifice heart joy men O thou great, unknown Power! Thou Almighty God, who hast lighted up reason in my breast and blessed me with immortality! I have frequently wandered from that order and regularity necessary for the perfection of thy works, yet thou hast never left me nor forsaken me. Robert Burns me power blessed god There is scarcely anything to which I am so feelingly alive as the honour and welfare of my country, and, as a poet, I have no higher enjoyment than singing her sons and daughters. Robert Burns i-am enjoyment singing country I am very willing to admit that I have some poetical abilities, and as few - if any - writers, either moral or political, are intimately acquainted with the classes of mankind among whom I have chiefly mingled, I may have seen men and manners in a different phasis from what is common, which may assist originality of thought. Robert Burns i-am thought political men
