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Life is but a day at most.

Robert Burns

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Robert Burns
Age: 37 †
Born: 1759
Born: January 25
Died: 1796
Died: July 21
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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If naebody care for me,I'll care for naebody.
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To make three guineas do the work of five.
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Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
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Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.
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My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
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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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When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
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The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.
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Yon rosebuds in the morning-dew, how pure amang the leaves sae green!
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But deep this truth impressed my mind — Thro' all his works abroad, The heart benevolent and kind The most resembles God.
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Once upon a Lammas Night When corn rigs are bonny, Beneath the Moon's unclouded light, I held awhile to Annie... The time went by with careless heed Between the late and early, With small persuasion she agreed To see me through the barley... Corn rigs and barley rigs, Corn rigs are bonny! I'll not forget that happy night Among the rigs with Annie!
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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They never sought in vain that sought the Lord alright!
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.
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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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What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools If honest nature made you fools.
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