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Robert Burns
Age: 37 †
Born: 1759
Born: January 25
Died: 1796
Died: July 21
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See Social-life and Glee sit down, All joyous and unthinking, Till, quite transmugrified, they're grown Debauchery and Drinking
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Here's to us, who's like us Damn few, and they're all dead.
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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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And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
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My heart 's in the Highlands, my heart is not here My heart 's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
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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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Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.
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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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For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, And none but he!
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Beauty's of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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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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Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd
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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.
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And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair. Wha does the utmost that he can Will whyles do mair.
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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
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But deep this truth impressed my mind — Thro' all his works abroad, The heart benevolent and kind The most resembles God.
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Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.
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