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Robert Burns
Age: 37 †
Born: 1759
Born: January 25
Died: 1796
Died: July 21
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Robbie Burns
Rabbie Burns
Scotland's favourite son
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Robden of Solway Firth
Bard of Ayrshire
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Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
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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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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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Yon rosebuds in the morning-dew, how pure amang the leaves sae green!
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What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou'd sae kindly, Had we never lou'd sae blindly, Never met - or never parted - We had ne'er been broken hearted
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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Beauty's of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.
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They never sought in vain that sought the Lord alright!
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An atheist's laugh 's a poor exchange For Deity offended!
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I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body If nae-body cares for me, I'll care for nae-body.
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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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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
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His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
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Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.
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The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.
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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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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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