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Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.--Robert Burns
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Robert Burns
Age: 37 †
Born: 1759
Born: January 25
Died: 1796
Died: July 21
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Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.
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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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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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Suspense is worse than disappointment.
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Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd
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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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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Some rhyme a neebor's name to lash Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu' cash Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An' raise a din For me, an aim I never fash I rhyme for fun.
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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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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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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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That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.
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