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Robert Burns [1759-1796] Scottish
Rank: 101
Poet (with poems), Bard

Bipolar disorder, Didactism, Freemasons, Laureate, National, Romanticism, Slavery, Song, Vernacular


Robert Burns, also known as Rabbie Burns, the Bard of Ayrshire and various other names and epithets, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide.

Fear



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There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
101
The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
102
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.
103
And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.
104
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
105
His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
106
Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
107
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. Fear
108
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
109
The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.
110
Suspense is worse than disappointment.
111
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
112
Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!
113
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
114

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