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Robert Burns
Age: 37 †
Born: 1759
Born: January 25
Died: 1796
Died: July 21
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Scotland's favourite son
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee.
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Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.
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An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there's another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.--Robert Burns
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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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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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To step aside is human.
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When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
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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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Life is but a day at most.
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Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd
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Humid seal of soft affections, Tend'rest pledge of future bliss, Dearest tie of young connections, Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.
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The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.
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