“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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Robert Burns (also known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, the Bard of Ayrshire and in Scotland as simply The Bard) was a Scottish poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a "light" Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in standard English, and in these pieces, his political or civil commentary is often at its most blunt. He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement and after his death became a great source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism. A cultural icon in Scotland and among the Scottish Diaspora around the world, celebration of his life and work became almost a national charismatic cult during the 19th and 20th centuries, and his influence has long been strong on Scottish literature. In 2009 he was voted by the Scottish public as being the Greatest Scot, through a vote run by Scottish television channel STV. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns
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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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“His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.”
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“Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!”
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“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.”
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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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“Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!”
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“The appellation of a Scottish Bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.”
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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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“And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.”
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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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“There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.”
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“Suspense is worse than disappointment.”
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“There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.”
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“The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.”
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