But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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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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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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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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Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
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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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The golden hours on angel wings Flew o’er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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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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My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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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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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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