The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
ROBERT BURNSWhen 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 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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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor. … Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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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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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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Life is but a day at most.
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Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep’d in the morning dews.
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The honest man, though e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men, for a’ that!
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won’t accept your thanks for murder.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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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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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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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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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
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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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