My 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!
ROBERT BURNSThe best plans of men and mice often go awry.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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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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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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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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A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.
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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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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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But facts are chiels that winna ding, An’ downa be disputed.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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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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The 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 plans of men and mice often go awry.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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