The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
ROBERT BURNSO, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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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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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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Go fetch to me a pint o’ wine, An’ fill it in a silver tassie.
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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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Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.
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Life is but a day at most.
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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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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.
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If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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The wide world is all before us – but a world without a friend.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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