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Here's a pair of my favorites from Robert Burns:

"Oh wad some Power the giftie gi'e us
To see ourselves as ithers see us!
It would frae mony a doubt free us,
And foolish notion,
What airs in face and dress would lea'e us,
And e'en devotion!"

(From To  A Louse)

"The best laid plans of mice and men
Gang aft agley,
And leave us naught but grief and pain
For promised joy.

Still thou art blest, compared with me,
The present only touches thee;
But oh! I backward cast my e'e
On prospects drear!

And forward, though I canna see,
I guess and fear!"

(From To A Mouse)