Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
ROBERT BURNSThe best plans of men and mice often go awry.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou’d sae kindly, Had we never lou’d sae blindly, Never met – or never parted – We had ne’er been broken hearted.
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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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