To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
ROBERT BURNSThe 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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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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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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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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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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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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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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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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Life is but a day at most.
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