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What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
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How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
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My sun sets to raise again.
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Since when was genius found respectable?
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First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew…
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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add,…
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If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
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Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
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Who so loves believes the impossible.
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Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck…
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God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
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You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life…
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Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Lofty talk about 'social justice' or 'fairness' boils down to greatly expanded powers for politicians, since those pretty words have no concrete…
— Thomas Sowell
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Lady, lady, never start Conversation toward your heart; Keep your pretty words serene; Never murmur what you mean. Show yourself, by word…
— Dorothy Parker
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She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with…
— Emily Dickinson
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If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my…
— Allen Ginsberg
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Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.
— Charles Bukowski
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Pretty words are not always true, and true words are not always pretty.
— Emaliebaby
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Pretty words are not always true. True words are not always pretty.
— Blossom
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The world cannot be changed with pretty words alone.
— Code Geass
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