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Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I'll not look for wine.


Benjamin Johnson

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Or return from following after thee—

For whith...
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And you can take all the pain away from me
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Will be the final goal of ill,
To pangs of nature, sins ...
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Until it be according unto mine?
But, no...
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and you will go mad with drunkenness.
You will drop your masks
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I choose silence so that you leave,
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but the cup-bearer knows:...
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you and I
are not about poems or
other sentimental bullshit
but I have t...
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No water for us, or sweet wine;
We’ll not embrace ...
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Now I don’t know how your eye...
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from heaven is sent,
more perfect than all
that a man can in...
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Be careful of words,
even the miraculous ones.
For the miraculous ...
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Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me;...
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I will take your soul out of your body
As though I were God.
...
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There was nothing but uncompromising w...
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Half of the night with our old friend
Who�...
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by Oriah Mountain Dreamer

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  Only
  Constraints
  Undeveloped
                ...
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In my daughter's eyes I am a hero
I am strong and wise and I ...
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Let me hold down ...
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She leaned in to drop a kiss on the kitten's soft head, ...
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forever memorable,
the waters of its ocean
chill and fresh. ANNA AKHMATOVA I am not sure I trust you."
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Why do they always ruin my rope
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big enough for a weekend getaway
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Where ever I look, I find them.
There is no place devoid of them.
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Lungs and kidneys, too.
I wonder then
why we're born with one<...
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E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS STAINS
With red clay between my toes,
and the sun setting over my head,
the ghost of ...
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And now you're mine. Rest with your dream in my dream.
Love and pain ...
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will yo...
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-Yes
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-Yes
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I will try harder
to be better.
I
have battled with things
...
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There's little in water or wine
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 teacher friend
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an...
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For Viola-
For Ben-
F...
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BENJAMIN JOWETT When a man listens to the voice of the tempter within him, he is inclined to do as others do, not to...
BENJAMIN JOWETT One use of prayer is to maintain in us a higher standard and prevent our principles insensibly sinki...
BENJAMIN JOWETT An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own childr...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame; a quality of success wh...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tenden...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
BENJAMIN SPOCK There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.
WALTER BENJAMIN There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN One today is worth two tomorrows.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Power has only one duty --to secure the social welfare of the People.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The most important four words for a successful marriage: 'I'll do the dishes.'
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Sometimes when I close my eyes, I can't see.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Marriage is a wonderful institution... but who wants to live in an institution?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN What great energy, intelligence, and magnificent beautiful eyes... But enough about me, how are you ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Lib...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable ...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal....
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Creditors have better memories than debtors.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Great countries are those that produce great people.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pai...
BENJAMIN BRITTEN We moralize among ruins.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for mon...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He has not a single redeeming defect.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, tha...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to th...
BENJAMIN SPOCK The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, ...
BENJAMIN SPOCK