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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
Robert Burns
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Robert Burns
Age: 37 †
Born: 1759
Born: January 25
Died: 1796
Died: July 21
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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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The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.
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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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Now Simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the chrystal streamlets plays Come let us spend the lightsome days In the birks of Aberfeldy.
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Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear.
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Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
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Nae man can tether time or tide The hour approachesTam maun ride That hour, o'night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hourTam mounts his beast in.
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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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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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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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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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Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.
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I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union.
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To make three guineas do the work of five.
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The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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