Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
ROBERT BURNSThe best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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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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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 snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o’ the morn.
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Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
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God knows, I’m no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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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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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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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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To step aside is human.
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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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Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
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An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there’s another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
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Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An’ raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.
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