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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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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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Beauty's of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.
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I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body If nae-body cares for me, I'll care for nae-body.
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If naebody care for me,I'll care for naebody.
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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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There's some are fou o' love divine There's some are fou o' brandy.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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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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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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Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
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My heart is sair-I dare na tell, My heart is sair for Somebody.
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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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The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.
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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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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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Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
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Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear.
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