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“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.”

Stanza 8
Epistle to a Young Friend (1786)

“T is sweeter for thee despairing
Than aught in the world beside,—Jessy!”

Robert Burns Here's A Health

Jessy.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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

It Was A' for Our Rightfu' King, st. 1
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)

“Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.”

Sensibility How Charming, st. 4
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)

“If there's another world, he lives in bliss;
If there is none, he made the best of this.”

Epitaph on William Muir
Posthumous Pieces (1799)

“Here lies Boghead amang the dead
In hopes to get salvation;
But if such as he in Heav'n may be,
Then welcome, hail! damnation. ”

“Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi' bickering brattle!”

Robert Burns To a Mouse

To a Mouse, st. 1 (1785)

“Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to min?'
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days o' auld lang syne?”

Auld Lang Syne, st. 1 (1788)

“O, wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion.
What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us
An' ev'n Devotion”

Robert Burns To a Louse

To a Louse, st. 8 (1786) http://www.poetry-online.org/burns_to_a_louse.htm

“To see her is to love her,
And love but her forever;
For Nature made her what she is,
And never made anither!”

Bonny Lesley
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Ah, Tam! Ah! Tam! Thou'll get thy fairin!
In hell they'll roast you like a herrin!”

Robert Burns Tam o' Shanter

Source: Tam o' Shanter (1790), Line 201

“Some books are lies frae end to end.”

Death and Dr. Hornbook, st. 1 (1787)

“Ye're aiblins nae temptation.”

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

“O, my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June.”

Source: A Red, Red Rose