Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
ROBERT BURNSMy 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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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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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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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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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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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator’s workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.
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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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When chill November’s surly blast Made fields and forests bare.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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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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