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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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My heart 's in the Highlands, my heart is not here My heart 's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
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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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Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.
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To make three guineas do the work of five.
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Why has a religious turn of mind always a tendency to narrow and harden the heart?
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The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd
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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
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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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Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.
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And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair. Wha does the utmost that he can Will whyles do mair.
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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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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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