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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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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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Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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The best plans of men and mice often go awry.
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His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
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Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven.
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For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs the manor.
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What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools If honest nature made you fools.
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Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won't accept your thanks for murder.
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But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.
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When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.
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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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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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An atheist's laugh 's a poor exchange For Deity offended!
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The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.
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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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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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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
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Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his depths and his shallows, his good and his evil, All in all, he's a problem must puzzle the devil.
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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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