The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
ROBERT BURNSThe best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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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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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.
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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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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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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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To step aside is human.
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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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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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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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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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A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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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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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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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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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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There’s some are fou o’ love divine; There’s some are fou o’ brandy.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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