The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation’s path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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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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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.
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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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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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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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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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