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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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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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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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An atheist's laugh 's a poor exchange For Deity offended!
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd
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O, my luve is like a red, red rose.
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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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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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Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union.
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That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.
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What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
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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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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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The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
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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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