“But thy eternal summer shall not fade.”
William Shakespeare
“This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.”
Walt Whitman
“ Some .. see things that are ... and ask why ? I Dream things that never were ... and ask Why Not ! ”
G.B. Shaw
“I refuse to live My life under the shadows of doubts and fears! For I know who I am and I know where I'm going!....”
Philip T. M.
“'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone”
Thomas More
“I see a lilly on thy brow, / With anguish moist and fever dew; / And on thy cheek a fading rose / Fast withereth too. I met a lady in the meads / Full beautiful, a faery's child; / Her hair was long, her foot was light, / And her eyes were wild.”
John Keats
“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all!”
Washington Irving