Ridgely Torrence Quotes

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• Tell Youth to play with Wine and Love and never bear away the scars! I may as well tilt up the sky and yet try…
• Whether my days are cooled with calm or filled with fever's ardent taint, I have the same blue sky as God, I have the same…
• Whatever Juice this sky will pour this gaping parched old throat will drain; What time the Harper harps I'll dance: 'tis He, not I, who…
• A strong, brave man is born each month, each year God gives a sage to men, A poet each ten years, perhaps, but an unselfish…
• Girl, when he gives you kisses twain, use one, and let the other stay; And hoard it, for moons die, red fades, and you may…
• The Song of Love, the Song of Hate, the Songs of Praise and of Thanksgiving; I've learned them all, but there remains one called the…
• I saw them kissing in the shade and knew the sum of all my lore: God gave them Youth, God gave them Love, and even…
• Sometimes I think that all mankind exist but to be bought and sold: The rich man's paramour is gold, the poor man's goddess, gold, gold,…
• Though man or angel judge my life and read it like an open scroll, And weigh my heart, I have judge more just than any—my…
• But work a year and sleep an hour, and sleep a night and sing a day, And take a little wine and love, and when…
• Of all the languages of the earth in which the human kind confer; The Master Speaker is the Tear: its the Great Interpreter.

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