Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
ROBERT BURNSThe best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
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Your lines, I maintain it, are poetry, and good poetry. Friendship had I been so blest as to have met with you in time, might have led me – God of love only knows where.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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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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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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O, 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.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
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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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I’m truly sorry man’s dominion has broken Nature’s social union.
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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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God knows, I’m not the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be Just for a screen.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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