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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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Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.
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Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear.
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It 's guid to be merry and wise, It 's guid to be honest and true, It 's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .
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To make three guineas do the work of five.
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The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.
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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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If naebody care for me,I'll care for naebody.
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray, A hapless lover courts thy lay, Thy soothing, fond complaining.
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As Tammie glow'red, amazed and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.
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Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victory! Now 's the day and now 's the hour See the front o' battle lour.
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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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His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
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Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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