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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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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 snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
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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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The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie, For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.
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My heart is sair-I dare na tell, My heart is sair for Somebody.
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Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.
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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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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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Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.
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Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd
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Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
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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 upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.
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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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