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Here's to us, who's like us Damn few, and they're all dead.

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Robert Burns
Age: 37 †
Born: 1759
Born: January 25
Died: 1796
Died: July 21
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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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To make three guineas do the work of five.
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Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.
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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 voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.
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Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.
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Gin a body meet a body Coming thro' the rye, Gin a body kiss a body— Need a body cry?
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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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Not the bee upon the blossom, In the pride o' sunny noon Not the little sporting fairy, All beneath the simmer moon Not the poet, in the moment Fancy lightens in his e'e, Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture, That thy presence gi'es to me.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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On Earth, Discord! A gloomy Heaven above, opening her jealous gates to the nineteen thousandth part of the tithe of mankind! And below, an inescapable & inexorable Hell, expanding its leviathan jaws for the vast residue of Mortals!
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Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.
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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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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep'd in the morning dews.
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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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What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
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