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Robert Burns
Age: 37 †
Born: 1759
Born: January 25
Died: 1796
Died: July 21
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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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The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.
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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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Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.
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Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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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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I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union.
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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O, my luve is like a red, red rose.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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Yon rosebuds in the morning-dew, how pure amang the leaves sae green!
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Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.
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Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
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Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his depths and his shallows, his good and his evil, All in all, he's a problem must puzzle the devil.
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Why has a religious turn of mind always a tendency to narrow and harden the heart?
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What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
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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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