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A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.

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Robert Burns
Age: 37 †
Born: 1759
Born: January 25
Died: 1796
Died: July 21
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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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Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven.
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Never generally means at no point in time. The term comes from the words 'no' and 'ever', meaning that something is not ever going to happen. Sourced
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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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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 rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.
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Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
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Beauty's of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!
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Life is but a day at most.
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I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union.
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Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee.
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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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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!
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Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.
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Gin a body meet a body Coming thro' the rye, Gin a body kiss a body— Need a body cry?
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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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My heart is sair-I dare na tell, My heart is sair for Somebody.
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O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent
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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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