October 2011
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“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
– John F. Kennedy
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“Success is the ability to go from one failure to the next with no loss of...”
– Winston Churchill
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The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning...
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“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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August 2011
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“I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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July 2011
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“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more...”
– Mother Teresa
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My Suburban Girl
I know a sweet suburban girl, She’s witty, bright and brief; With dimples in her cheeks; and pearl In rubies set, for teeth.
Beneath her glossy raven hair There beams the hazel eye, Bright as the star of evening there Where the yellow sunbeams die.
Her breath is like a flower blown, In fragrance and perfume; Her voice seems from the blissful throne Where their harps the angels...
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“Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits.”
– Theodore Zeldin
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June 2011
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“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
– Oscar Wilde
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May 2011
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“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
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A Moment To Remember
A magic moment I remember: I raised my eyes and you were there. A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that’s beautiful and rare.
I pray to mute despair and anguish To vain pursuits the world esteems, Long did I near your soothing accents, Long did your features haunt my dreams.
Time passed. A rebel storm-blast scattered The reveries that once were mine And I forgot your...
March 2011
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“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or...”
– Daniel Keyes
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September 2010
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“I find the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
– Thomas Jefferson
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“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without...”
– Aristotle
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Wanted
God wants you, As I want you; It must come to pass, Before I come to pass. My heart still falters When I think of you.
P.V.
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“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to...”
– Bill Cosby
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“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know...”
– Oscar Wilde
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“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
– Albert Einstein
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Who Ever Loved, That Loved Not At First Sight?
It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is overruled by fate. When two are stripped, long ere the course begin, We wish that one should love, the other win; And one especially do we affect Of two gold ingots, like in each respect: The reason no man knows, let it suffice, What we behold is censured by our eyes. Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever loved,...
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“Cities are not immortal; nor are memories; nor are gods.”
– Salman Rushdie
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“Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.”
– Gore Vidal
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“Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.”
– Isaac Asimov
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An Equal Music
Perhaps this could have stayed unstated. Had our words turned to other things In the grey park, the rain abated, Life would have quickened other strings. I list your gifts in this creation: Pen, paper, ink and inspiration, Peace to the heart with touch or word, Ease to the soul with note and chord.
How did that walk, those winter hours, Occasion this? No lightning came; Nor did I sense,...
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“The trouble with life isn’t that there is no answer, it’s that there are so many...”
– Samuel Johnson
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“Wit is educated insolence.”
– Aristotle
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“When ideas fail, words come in very handy.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Bygones
I walk to church. I sit, I’m forgiven, And wonder whether my thoughts are just. I feel dirty, worn, corrupted, My prayers half-hearted, belief is a must. The more I learn, the worse I feel, Each waking day more difficult than the last. Excuses made, I don’t know what’s real, Mistakes I’ve made still haunt my past.
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“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a...”
– W. Somerset Maugham
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“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.”
– John F. Kennedy
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“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
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She Walks In Beauty
She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o’er her face; Where thoughts serenely sweet...
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“A throne is only a bench covered in velvet.”
– Napoléon Bonaparte
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“You’re a true vulgarian, aren’t you?”
– John Cleese
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