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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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What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
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Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
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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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Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
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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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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
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For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs the manor.
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Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.
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The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
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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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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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There's some are fou o' love divine There's some are fou o' brandy.
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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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It 's guid to be merry and wise, It 's guid to be honest and true, It 's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.
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Not the bee upon the blossom, In the pride o' sunny noon Not the little sporting fairy, All beneath the simmer moon Not the poet, in the moment Fancy lightens in his e'e, Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture, That thy presence gi'es to me.
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And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night Lest in temptation's path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.
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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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God knows, I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.
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An atheist's laugh 's a poor exchange For Deity offended!
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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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