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

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Robert Burns
Age: 37 †
Born: 1759
Born: January 25
Died: 1796
Died: July 21
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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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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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O, my luve is like a red, red rose.
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Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.
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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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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .
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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.
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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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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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Gin a body meet a body Coming thro' the rye, Gin a body kiss a body— Need a body cry?
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Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victory! Now 's the day and now 's the hour See the front o' battle lour.
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Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.
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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.
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Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o'daisies white Out o'er the grassy lea.
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If naebody care for me,I'll care for naebody.
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