Life is but a day at most.
ROBERT BURNSMan’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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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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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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The trout in yonder wimpling burn – That glides, a silver dart, – And, safe beneath the shady thorn, – Defies the anglers art.
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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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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it’s bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
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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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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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