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I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
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Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord.
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
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It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
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He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.
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The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.
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Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
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God once declared He was true And then took the veil and withdrew....
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College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
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The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.
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The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind- Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.
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People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
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Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain as his mother
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There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.
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The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.
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What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
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Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air.
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You can't trust God to be unmerciful. There you have the beginning of all wisdom.
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.
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For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true.
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.