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The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.

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Robert Burns
Age: 37 †
Born: 1759
Born: January 25
Died: 1796
Died: July 21
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Now's the day and now's the hour.
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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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To make three guineas do the work of five.
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An atheist's laugh 's a poor exchange For Deity offended!
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us
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Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
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Now Simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the chrystal streamlets plays Come let us spend the lightsome days In the birks of Aberfeldy.
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How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
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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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Suspense is worse than disappointment.
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Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.
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Nae man can tether time or tide The hour approachesTam maun ride That hour, o'night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hourTam mounts his beast in.
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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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Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep'd in the morning dews.
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