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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.

Robert Burns

Here’s to us, who’s like us Damn few, and they’re all dead.
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Death Ourselves Team
Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Change Law Nature
And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Herself Light Pass Run Thinking
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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Frame Greatness Human Man Mindset Nature Planning Work
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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Best Joy Leaving Man Pain Promise
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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Appearance Beautiful Herself Love Myself Wife
If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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Best Himself Live World
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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Dare Death Fear Himself Honesty Man Music Sing
A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Average Greatness Man Power Woman
The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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Bath Flower Ourselves Violence
To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That’s the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
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Happiness Human Life True Wife
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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Gold Life Light Myself Wings
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom’s root.
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Care Control Root Wisdom
Life is but a day at most.
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Life One Liner Time
Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Gift Ourselves Power See
The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church’s ban Or hell’s damnation.
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Best Fear Heart Hell Honesty Man Need
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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Acceptance God Hypocrisy Man Murder Shame Thankful Yourself
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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Beautiful Charm Creation Grace Motion Myself Night Sex
Anticipation forward points the view.
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One Liner Point View
Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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Blessing Glory King Life Victory
God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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Be Yourself God Myself Personality
O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.
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Fools Freedom Ourselves Power
The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Generosity God Heart Kind
But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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Forever Love See
Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Hope Success Wings
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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heavy Protection Weight
Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Hope Yourself

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