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Some books are lies frae end to end.

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Robert Burns
Age: 37 †
Born: 1759
Born: January 25
Died: 1796
Died: July 21
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Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Suspense is worse than disappointment.
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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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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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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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Life is but a day at most.
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Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
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The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.
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O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
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If naebody care for me,I'll care for naebody.
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See Social-life and Glee sit down, All joyous and unthinking, Till, quite transmugrified, they're grown Debauchery and Drinking
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Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.
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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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Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O!
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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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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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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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The great Creator to revere Must sure become the creature But still the preaching cant forbear, And ev'n the rigid feature: Yet ne'er with wits profane to range Be complaisance extendedAn atheist laugh's a poor exchange For deity offended.
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