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But this is not my little bed;That time is far away;With strangers now I live instead,From dreary day to day.


William Allingham

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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from th...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH There are good waves not that far from Manhattan - on Long Island, in north Jersey. It's true th...
WILLIAM FINNEGAN Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic current...
WILLIAM JAMES As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now is the winter of our discontent.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human he...
WILLIAM GODWIN Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
WILLIAM BLAKE The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce...
WILLIAM JAMES I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasio...
WILLIAM JOYCE Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
WILLIAM GOLDING The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The course of true love never did run smooth.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
WILLIAM PETTY Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
WILLIAM JAMES By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.
WILLIAM SCRANTON The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you...
PRINCE WILLIAM What Bitcoin started is metamorphosing into something bigger: a 'crypto-tech'-driven economy...
WILLIAM MOUGAYAR Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, w...
WILLIAM GOLDING Religion is the most important of all things: the great point of discrimination that divides the man...
WILLIAM GODWIN Meeting all walks of life, it broadened your horizons, let's say that.
WILLIAM O'NEILL President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave t...
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Whi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE