There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
ROBERT BURNSPleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed.
More Robert Burns Quotes
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To step aside is human.
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Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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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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The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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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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Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!
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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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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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Now’s the day and now’s the hour.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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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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