The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
ROBERT BURNSShe is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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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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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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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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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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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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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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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
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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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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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