The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
ROBERT BURNSMy dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav’n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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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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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
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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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Beauty’s of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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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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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
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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 plans of men and mice often go awry.
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To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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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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