But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
ROBERT BURNSNature’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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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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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 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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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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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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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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To step aside is human.
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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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She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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