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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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Now's the day and now's the hour.
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My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
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Anticipation forward points the view.
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Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.--Robert Burns
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O, my luve is like a red, red rose.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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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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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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Why has a religious turn of mind always a tendency to narrow and harden the heart?
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.
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His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
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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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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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If naebody care for me,I'll care for naebody.
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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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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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The great Creator to revere Must sure become the creature But still the preaching cant forbear, And ev'n the rigid feature: Yet ne'er with wits profane to range Be complaisance extendedAn atheist laugh's a poor exchange For deity offended.
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The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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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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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
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