"Sometimes I think that all mankind exist but……" — Ridgely Torrence
"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, gold."
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Ridgely Torrence
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11 Quotes by Ridgely Torrence
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Tell Youth to play with Wine and Love and never bear away the scars! I may as well tilt up…
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Whether my days are cooled with calm or filled with fever's ardent taint, I have the same blue sky as…
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Whatever Juice this sky will pour this gaping parched old throat will drain; What time the Harper harps I'll dance:…
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A strong, brave man is born each month, each year God gives a sage to men, A poet each ten…
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Girl, when he gives you kisses twain, use one, and let the other stay; And hoard it, for moons die,…
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The Song of Love, the Song of Hate, the Songs of Praise and of Thanksgiving; I've learned them all, but…
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I saw them kissing in the shade and knew the sum of all my lore: God gave them Youth, God…
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Though man or angel judge my life and read it like an open scroll, And weigh my heart, I have…
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But work a year and sleep an hour, and sleep a night and sing a day, And take a little…
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Of all the languages of the earth in which the human kind confer; The Master Speaker is the Tear: its…
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