"There is no balm of Gilead, No salve,……" — Richard Armour
"There is no balm of Gilead, No salve, no soothing ointment To stay the pain of one who's had In love a disappointment-- Unless it be that healing lotion Of fixing on a new devotion."
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Richard Armour
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34 Quotes by Richard Armour
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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of…
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
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That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.
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It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
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Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.
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In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.
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Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.
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G is for Green, that's constructed to roll in every direction away from the hole.
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This golfer has a wicked slice. And quite a follow-through. That's why his partner, who stood too close, Is on…
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Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion.
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"Do you want my honest opinion?" People ask. I say, "Yes," for I'm curious. So they give me their honest…
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Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.
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