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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

Robert Burns

I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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Discrimination Doubt Grave Laughter Myself Time
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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Bloom Flower Forever Happiness Moments River
Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Hope Success Wings
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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Blessing Friendship God Goodness Love Poetry Time
And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Herself Light Pass Run Thinking
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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Brave Dare Fear Honesty
If there’s another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
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Best Himself Live World
The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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Love Man Wisdom
Life is but a day at most.
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Life One Liner Time
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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Atheist God Hide Myself Time
How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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Person Powerful Rich
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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Fear God Mindset Responsibility Temptation Yourself
Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel’s united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.
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Hands Right True Unity
Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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One Liner Short
Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Gift Ourselves Power See
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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Best Joy Leaving Man Pain Promise

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

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