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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

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Robert Burns
Age: 37 †
Born: 1759
Born: January 25
Died: 1796
Died: July 21
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Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.
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Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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O, my luve is like a red, red rose.
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Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.
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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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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
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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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Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven.
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For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs the manor.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Yon rosebuds in the morning-dew, how pure amang the leaves sae green!
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Suspense is worse than disappointment.
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An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there's another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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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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