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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.

Robert Burns

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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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Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won't accept your thanks for murder.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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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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Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.
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Yon rosebuds in the morning-dew, how pure amang the leaves sae green!
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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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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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.
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They never sought in vain that sought the Lord alright!
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Humid seal of soft affections, Tend'rest pledge of future bliss, Dearest tie of young connections, Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.
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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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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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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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My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!
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The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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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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Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.
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