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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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Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.
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Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.
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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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All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit some attention.
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What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools If honest nature made you fools.
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What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
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Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
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Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
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To see her is to love her, And love but her forever For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!
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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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The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.
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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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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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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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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou'd sae kindly, Had we never lou'd sae blindly, Never met - or never parted - We had ne'er been broken hearted
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