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Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly in, and…
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The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast.
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He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward…
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We live by faith; but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never…
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Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our…
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God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day; The evil cannot brook delay, The good…
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I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and…
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God is good and God is light In this faith I rest secure, Evil can but serve the right, Over all shall…
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And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.
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Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland…
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The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe…
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So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!
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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray…
— Ruth Gordon
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Age is as much an asset for character players as it is for good wine. Human experiences, both good and bad, leave…
— Strother Martin
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So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore!
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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Did you know that according to legend, the guy who became Buddha decided to seek enlightenment the day he got a touch…
— Anderson Cooper
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Eternity has no gray hairs. The flowers fade, the heart withers, people grow old and die, the world lies down in the…
— Reginald Heber
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I am not going to respect ... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
— Jean Paul
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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She didn't feel thirty. But then again again, what was being thirty supposed to feel like? When she was younger, thirty seemed…
— Cecelia Ahern
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Does your ma know you're this silly?" she demanded tartly. He nodded, comically sad. "The few gray hairs she has on her…
— Tamora Pierce
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