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.
ROBERT BURNSThe best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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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Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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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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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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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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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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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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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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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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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou’d sae kindly, Had we never lou’d sae blindly, Never met – or never parted – We had ne’er been broken hearted.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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