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What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Robert Burns
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Robert Burns
Age: 37 †
Born: 1759
Born: January 25
Died: 1796
Died: July 21
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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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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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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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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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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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Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o'daisies white Out o'er the grassy lea.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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God knows, I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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