The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
ROBERT BURNSYe 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.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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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’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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To step aside is human.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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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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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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It ‘s guid to be merry and wise, It ‘s guid to be honest and true, It ‘s guid to support Caledonia’s cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
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My heart ‘s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart ‘s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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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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