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Robert Burns
Age: 37 †
Born: 1759
Born: January 25
Died: 1796
Died: July 21
Farmer
Musicologist
Poet
Songwriter
Writer
Robbie Burns
Rabbie Burns
Scotland's favourite son
Ploughman Poet
Robden of Solway Firth
Bard of Ayrshire
The Bard
Robert Burns
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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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O, my luve is like a red, red rose.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union.
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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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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
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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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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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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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See Social-life and Glee sit down, All joyous and unthinking, Till, quite transmugrified, they're grown Debauchery and Drinking
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Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.
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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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Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
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My heart is sair-I dare na tell, My heart is sair for Somebody.
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The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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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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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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