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A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Topic: Sound
LightWinged Smoke Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and the messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night star-veiling, and by day Darkening the light and blotting out the sun; Go thou my incense upward from this hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame. -Henry David Thoreau-.
Topic: Grace
I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.
The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.
Topic: Society
Don't be afraid of opposition; Remember a kite rises against, not with the wind.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
I go to see the sun for the last time.
Topic: Last Words
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
Topic: Speech
It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.
Topic: Laughter
Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: "It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss... ".
Topic: Negativity
Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.
Topic: Courage
Author: Robert Cody
The forest laments in order that Mr. Gladstone may perspire.
And all at Worcester but the honour lost.
Topic: Honor
Author: John Dryden
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Topic: Faith
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
Topic: Harmony
The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might To eat with apple-tart.
Topic: Cows
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
Author: F M Knowles
When cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round, And the whirring sail goes round; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits.
Topic: Owls
I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, "There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.
Topic: Girls
Think not I am what I appear.
Topic: Appearance
Author: Lord Byron
People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.
Topic: Value