God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
ROBERT BURNSLook abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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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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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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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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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 want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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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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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Nature’s law, That man was made to mourn. Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man’s dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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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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