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Robert Burns
Age: 37 †
Born: 1759
Born: January 25
Died: 1796
Died: July 21
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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There's some are fou o' love divine There's some are fou o' brandy.
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The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.
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I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union.
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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.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou'd sae kindly, Had we never lou'd sae blindly, Never met - or never parted - We had ne'er been broken hearted
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His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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My heart is sair-I dare na tell, My heart is sair for Somebody.
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If naebody care for me,I'll care for naebody.
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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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The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.
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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.
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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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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.
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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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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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While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit some attention.
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