The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there’s another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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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.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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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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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
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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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God knows, I’m not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
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