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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
Seek peace, and pursue it. [Prove!4:14].
Seek peace, and pursue it. [Prove!4:14].
I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.
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I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.
I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me;
All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.
You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.
You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.
Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.
Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker. If
weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
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He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker. If
weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
[Lat., Aut potentior te, aut imbecillior laesit: si imbecillior,
barce ille; si potentior, tibi.]
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down read more
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.