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O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.
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The wild mustard in Southern California is like that spoken of in the New Testament. . . . Its gold is as…
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There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.
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There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance…
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Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its…
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But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years…
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Who longest waits most surely wins.
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For April sobs while these are so glad April weeps while these are so gay,- Weeps like a tired child who had,…
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O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey…
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One of Dr. Johnson's ingredients of happiness was, "A little less time than you want." That means always to have so many…
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O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions,--sweeter days are thine!
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Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down upon the world,-\-\it seemed the…
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Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its…
— Helen Hunt Jackson
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There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies…
— Hector Hugh Munro
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Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But…
— William Davenant
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The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase.
— William Shakespeare
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Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their…
— Mark Twain
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Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where…
— William Shakespeare
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I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but…
— Lois Lowry
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..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been…
— Charles Bukowski
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Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or…
— Michael Chabon
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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter…
— Dorothy Dix
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