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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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Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven.
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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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If naebody care for me,I'll care for naebody.
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Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o'daisies white Out o'er the grassy lea.
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My heart is sair-I dare na tell, My heart is sair for Somebody.
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The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.
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The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.
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Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.
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Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee.
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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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For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs the manor.
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And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair. Wha does the utmost that he can Will whyles do mair.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
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If there 's a hole in a' your coats, I rede ye tent it A chiel 's amang ye takin' notes, And, faith, he 'll prent it.
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Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.
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