The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
ROBERT BURNSTo make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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Oh my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; Oh my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune.
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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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