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Mankind is a science that defies definitions.

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Robert Burns
Age: 37 †
Born: 1759
Born: January 25
Died: 1796
Died: July 21
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie.
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Some books are lies frae end to end.
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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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I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
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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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Suspense is worse than disappointment.
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While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit some attention.
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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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Life is but a day at most.
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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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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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Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.
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Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.
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The great Creator to revere Must sure become the creature But still the preaching cant forbear, And ev'n the rigid feature: Yet ne'er with wits profane to range Be complaisance extendedAn atheist laugh's a poor exchange For deity offended.
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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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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .
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