When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
ROBERT BURNSThe best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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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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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation’s path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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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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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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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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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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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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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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