The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
ROBERT BURNSThe snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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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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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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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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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry. Friendship had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me – God of love only knows where.
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God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow’s head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.
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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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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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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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The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church’s ban Or hell’s damnation.
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