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“God knows, I'm no the thing I should be,
Nor am I even the thing I could be.”

To The Reverend John M'Math, st. 8
Posthumous Pieces (1799)

“If there's a hole in a' your coats,
I rede you tent it;
A chield's aman you takin' notes,
And faith he'll prent it.”

On the Late Captain Grose's Peregrinations Thro' Scotland, st. 1 (1793)

“Ye banks and braes o' bonny Doon,
How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair?
How can ye chant, ye little birds,
And I sae weary fu' o' care!
Thou'll break my heart, thou warbling bird,
That wantons thro' the flowering thorn!
Thou minds me o' departed joys,
Departed never to return.”

The Banks o' Doon, st. 1
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)

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

Robert Burns The Cotter's Saturday Night

Stanza 9
The Cotter's Saturday Night (1786)

“A gaudy dress and gentle air May slightly touch the heart;
But it's innocence and modesty
that polished the dart.”

Robert Burns Handsome Nell

Handsome Nell (1773) (also known as "My Handsome Nell"), st. 6.
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)

“Suspense is worse than disappointment.”

Letter to Thomas Sloan, (1 September 1791)

“For a' that, and a' that
An' twice as muckle 's a' that,
I've lost but ane, I've twa behin',
I've wife eneugh for a' that.”

The Jolly Beggars, chorus
Posthumous Pieces (1799)

“The white moon is setting behind the white wave,
And Time is setting with me, O!”

Misquotation by W. B. Yeats of Burns's "Open the Door to me, Oh" http://www.robertburns.org/works/397.shtml (1793) in Ideas of good and evil (1907), p. 241; the original reads: "The wan Moon is setting beyond the white wave,/ And Time is setting with me, oh!" <br class="br">Misattributed

“Address to the Unco Guid, st. 6 (1787)”

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

Robert Burns Mary Morison

Mary Morison, st. 1 (1793)

“It's guid to be merry and wise,
It's guid to be honest and true,
It's guid to support Caledonia's cause
And bide by the buff and the blue.”

Here's a Health to Them That's Awa, st. 1
Posthumous Pieces (1799)

“This day, Time winds th' exhausted chain,
To run the twelvemonth's length again.”

New Year's Day, st. 1 (1790)

“Nature's law,
That man was made to mourn.”

Man Was Made to Mourn, st. 4 (1786)

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

Stanza 11.
Epistle to a Young Friend (1786)

“Then gently scan your brother man,
Still gentler sister woman;
Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang,
To step aside is human.”

Address to the Unco Guid, st. 7 (1787)

“Perhaps Dundee's wild-warbling measures rise,
Or plaintive Martyrs, worthy of the name.”

Robert Burns The Cotter's Saturday Night

Stanza 13
The Cotter's Saturday Night (1786)

“Some wee short hours ayont the twal.”

Death and Dr. Hornbook.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Affliction's sons are brothers in distress;
A brother to relieve,—how exquisite the bliss!”

A Winter Night.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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

Will Ye Go and Marry Katie? (1764)

“Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn.
Man was made to Mourn.”

Man was Made to Mourn (1786)