may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living whatever they sing is better than to know and if men should not hear them men are old may my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if it's sunday may i be wrong for whenever men are right they are not young and may myself do nothing usefully and love yourself so more than truly there's never been quite such a fool who could fail pulling all the sky over him with one smile
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The Paradoxical Commandments
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TYLER KNOTT GREGSON For Equilibrium, a Blessing: Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore, May the relief ... JOHN O'DONOHUE Well, if pirates are bad, And vampires are worse, Then I pray that as long as I be Th... JUSTIN SOMPER I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, Eyes; I wonder if It weighs like Mine,<... EMILY DICKINSON To the Hesitating Purchaser: "If sailor tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventure,... ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Men who for truth and honor's sake Stand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while other... RALPH WALDO EMERSON We were talking about the space between us all And the people who hide themselves behind a wall... GEORGE HARRISON Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of ... LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I think of you often and make no outward show, But what it means to lose you, no one will ... ANON. Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast... 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