Life is but a day at most.
ROBERT BURNSIt ‘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.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator’s workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.
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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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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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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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My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
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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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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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