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Robert Burns
Robert Burns
Scottish Poet
Born: Jan 25, 1759
Died: Jul 21, 1796
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Dare to be honest and fear no labor. Robert Burns
Fear To Be Honest Dare Labor Honest
Suspense is worse than disappointment. Robert Burns
Disappointment Worse Than Suspense
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. Robert Burns
Welfare Poet Country Singing Honour Alive Scarcely Daughters Higher Sons Am Than Anything Which Her Enjoyment
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects. Robert Burns
More Weight Armor Protects Than Suspicion Heavy
It is natural for a young fellow to like the acquaintance of females and customary for him to keep them company when occasion serves. Some one of them is more agreeable to him than the rest; there is something, he knows not what, pleases him, he knows not how, in her company. This I take to be what is called love with the greatest part of us. Robert Burns
Love Natural Rest Young Pleases Some Something More Take He Part Like Fellow Occasion Him Knows Greatest How Females Than Acquaintance Them Us Agreeable Company Keep Serve Her
The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn. Robert Burns
Bathe Our Adorn Wet Violets
There is something so mean and unmanly in the arts of dissimulation and falsehood that I am surprised they can be used by anyone in so noble, so generous a passion as virtuous love. Robert Burns
Love Passion Virtuous Something Noble Generous Am Surprised Falsehood Arts Anyone Mean Used
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. Robert Burns
Character Wish Cowardly Resolve Complaint Despised Possess Firmness Always Exertion Enduring Whining
There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience. Robert Burns
Me Man Nothing Frame Unaccountable Seems Which Whole Conscience Thing
I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them. Robert Burns
Daily Me Poverty Meet Some Obscurity Am Foresee Them Measure Await Prepared Preparing
The joy of my heart is to 'study men, their manners, and their ways,' and for this darling object I cheerfully sacrifice every other consideration. Robert Burns
Heart Joy Men Sacrifice Manners Every Other Consideration Ways Darling Object Study Cheerfully
His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. Robert Burns
Gentleman Collar Locked Scholar Him His Brass
In my conscience, I believe that my heart has been so oft on fire that it is absolutely vitrified. Robert Burns
Heart Fire Believe Has-Been Absolutely Been Oft Conscience
I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to it. Robert Burns
Thought Affection Virtue Extremely Something Part Often Really
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. Robert Burns
Political Thought Men Seen Few Manners Willing Moral Ability Classes Some Admit Poetical Writers Am Very Chiefly Any May Common Different Either Which Acquainted Mankind Originality Whom Among Assist

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