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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.

Robert Burns

To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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Happiness Human Life True Wife
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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Blessing Friendship God Goodness Love Poetry Time
It ‘s guid to be merry and wise, It ‘s guid to be honest and true, It ‘s guid to support Caledonia’s cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
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Guide Honesty Support True Wisdom
What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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Admire Life Love Morning Nature Night Sun
I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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Commission Life Oneself Time
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Critics Fame Path Struggle
Anticipation forward points the view.
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One Liner Point View
Oh my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June; Oh my luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune.
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Play Red Rose
When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Desperate Face
Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Book End Lying One Liner
The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Best Man Planning Wasted
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Philosophy Uncertain
The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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Honesty King Man Poor
If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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Best Himself Live World
To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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Forever Herself Love Nature See
Life is but a day at most.
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Life One Liner Time

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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