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“The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.”
Countee Cullen
“O Fame! if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her.”
Lord Byron
“Come, and take choice of all my library,And so beguile thy sorrow.”
William Shakespeare
“Forbear to sleep the nights, and fast the days; Compare dead happiness with living woe; Think that thy babes were fairer than they were, And he that slew them fouler than he is: Bettering thy loss makes the bad causer worse: Revolving this will teach”
“Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? Deny thy father, and refuse thy name”
“Ay, go to the grave of buried love and meditate! There settle the account with thy conscience for every past benefit unrequited - every past endearment unregarded, of that departed being, who can never, never, never return to be soothed by thy contr”
Washington Irving
“Beauty’s ensign yetIs crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,And death’s pale flag is not advanced there.”
“Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying”
Bible
“The best way to see divine light is to put out thy own candle”
Thomas Fuller
“He who, from zone to zone,Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight,In the long way that I must tread alone,Will lead my steps aright.”
William Cullen Bryant
