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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

It 's guid to be merry and wise, It 's guid to be honest and true, It 's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.

Some wee short hour ayont the twal.

If naebody care for me,I'll care for naebody.

Unmatch'd at the bottle, unconquer'd in war, He drank his poor god-ship as deep as the sea; No tide of the Baltic e'er drunker than he.

Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.

God knows, I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.

Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.

Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.

The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art ...

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

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

If there 's a hole in a' your coats, I rede ye tent it; A chiel 's amang ye takin' notes, And, faith, he 'll prent it.

And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.

Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!

Life is but a day at most.

They never sought in vain that sought the Lord alright!

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

A gaudy dress and gentle air May slightly touch the heart; But it's innocence and modesty That polishes the dart.

It's hardly in a body's pow'r,To keep, at times, frae being sour.

The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.

O, my luve is like a red, red rose.

Suspense is worst than disappointment.

Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

But deep this truth impress'd my mind:
Thro' all His works abroad,
The heart benevolent and kind
The most resembles God.

Humid seal of soft affections,
Tend'rest pledge of future bliss,
Dearest tie of young connections,
Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.

Even thou who mournst the daisies fate, that fate is thine.

Mankind is a science that defies definitions.

Why has a religious turn of mind always a tendency to narrow and harden the heart?

Oatcakes are a delicate relish when eaten warm with ale.

There's some are fou o' love divine; There's some are fou o' brandy.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

The wisest man the warl' e'er saw,
He dearly loved the lasses, O.

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.

My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.

That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.

See Social-life and Glee sit down,
All joyous and unthinking,
Till, quite transmugrified, they're grown
Debauchery and Drinking

We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free.

A eunuch is a man who has had his work cut out for him.

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, that fate is thine.

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.

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.

Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.

Some books are lies frae end to end,
And some great lies were never penn'd ...

Be Briton still to Britain true,
Among oursel's united;
For never but by British hands
Maun British wrangs be righted.

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.

Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.
Robert Burns

Now's the day and now's the hour.

And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.

Now Nature hangs her mantle green
On every blooming tree,
And spreads her sheets o'daisies white
Out o'er the grassy lea.

It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty.

O Life! thou art a galling load,
Along a rough, a weary road,
To wretches such as I!

The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.

Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!

The honest man, though e'er sae poor,
Is king o' men, for a' that!

Great for good, or great for evil.

The lightly-jumping, glowrin' trouts, That thro' my waters play ...

To step aside is human.

All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn,
Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.
[Brigs of Ayr]

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

Anticipation forward points the view.

Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee.

And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.

To see her is to love her,
And love but her forever;
For nature made her what she is,
And never made anither!

Some hae meat and canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat and we can eat,
And sae the Lord be thankit.

Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.

Go fetch to me a pint o' wine,
An' fill it in a silver tassie.

A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.

My heart is sair-I dare na tell,
My heart is sair for Somebody.

The best plans of men and mice often go awry.

Again rejoicing Nature sees
Her robe assume its vernal hues
Her leafy locks wave in the breeze,
All freshly steep'd in the morning dews.

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o' mine.

Who made the heart, 'tis He alone
Decidedly can try us

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.

As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.

The golden hours on angel wings
Flew o'er me and my dearie,
For dear to me as light and life
Was my sweet Highland Mary.

How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.

Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray, A hapless lover courts thy lay, Thy soothing, fond complaining.

Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.

A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.

'T is sweeter for thee despairing Than aught in the world beside,-Jessy!

When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.

I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing; But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling!

For a' that, an' a' that,
It's coming yet for a' that,
That Man to Man, the world o'er,
Shall brothers be for a' that.

Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!

Beauty's of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.

Then gently scan your brother
man,
still gentler sister woman, though they may gang
a kennin wrang, to step aside is human

Gin a body meet a body Coming thro' the rye, Gin a body kiss a body - Need a body cry?

I am little acquainted with politeness, but I know a good deal of benevolence of temper and goodness of heart.

I found that old Solomon proved it fair,
That a big-belly'd bottle's a cure for all care.

Till crash! the cruel coulter past
Out thro' thy cell.

The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.