The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
ROBERT BURNSTo see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav’n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
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To step aside is human.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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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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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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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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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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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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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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