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Life is but a day at most.

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Robert Burns
Age: 37 †
Born: 1759
Born: January 25
Died: 1796
Died: July 21
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I look on the opposite sex with something like the admiration with which I regard the starry sky on a frosty December night. I admire the beauty of the Creator's workmanship, I am charmed with the wild but graceful eccentricity of the motions, and then I wish both of them goodnight.
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Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray, A hapless lover courts thy lay, Thy soothing, fond complaining.
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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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To see her is to love her, And love but her forever For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs the manor.
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That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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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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All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.
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Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.
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To make three guineas do the work of five.
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Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Beauty's of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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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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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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Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
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Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
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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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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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