Scottish - Poet | January 25, 1759 - July 21, 1796
O thou great, unknown Power! Thou Almighty God, who hast lighted up reason in my breast and blessed me with immortality! I have frequently wandered from that order and regularity necessary for the perfection of thy works, yet thou hast never left me nor forsaken me.
Robert Burns
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Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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There is scarcely anything to which I am so feelingly alive as the honour and welfare of my country, and, as a poet, I have no higher enjoyment than singing her sons and daughters.
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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I am very willing to admit that I have some poetical abilities, and as few - if any - writers, either moral or political, are intimately acquainted with the classes of mankind among whom I have chiefly mingled, I may have seen men and manners in a different phasis from what is common, which may assist originality of thought.
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Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!
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I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them.
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In my conscience, I believe that my heart has been so oft on fire that it is absolutely vitrified.
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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
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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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And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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