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Oh, for boyhood's painless play,
Sleep that wakes in laughing day,
Health that mocks the doctor's rules,
Knowledge never learned of schools.


John Greenleaf Whittier

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aft...
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The heart ain't the half of it,
And I'll never learn to laugh at it ANI DIFRANCO Yawn...

I believe that I love sleep
much more than anybody I’ve ever
met.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Sleep my little baby-oh
Sleep until you waken
When you wake you'll see the world
If I...
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then be happy
for this day shall never return.
And if to...
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That sleeps in me;
All day I feel its soft, feathery tur...
SYLVIA PLATH Fairy Song
Shed no tear! oh, shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep n...
JOHN KEATS Journey to the end of day,
Come the fire-fly,
Come the moon;
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that will only heal...
in the mosque of sleep.
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The stream flows,
The wind blows,
The cloud fleet...
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Sle...
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a...
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He thi...
ASPER BLURRY i used to think
i was broken

because
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spent my
dayd...
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lead us oh Lord in Thy might
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And the male that loves unrequited sleeps,
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Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women ...
W.B. YEATS Life is the season for loving and caring,
for laughing and caroling, giving and sharing....
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When my body no longer exists
But in the lines of this poem
I will ...
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Some boundless contiguity of shade,
Where rumour of o...
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Robin in the fall,
But Colin only looked at me
And n...
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Give back my book and take my kiss instead.
Was it m...
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O any thing, of nothing first create!
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For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
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For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. SAM LEVENSON Almost I feel the pulsebeat of the ages,
Now swift, now slow, beneath my fingertips.
The ...
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Oh! How I love my room: my tiny abode!
Here I wa...
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Hand prints on the wall
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From hope and fear set free,
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EILEEN HEHL In the beginning..
when ray and day hadn't yet come into existence at all,
there was a ki...
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to be like other people.
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from life itself,

love I learned in a single kiss
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First, I'm never wrong.
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...
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(C...
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But I know fairer far:
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I thought, now is the time to step...
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Her hands asleep beside her.
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I am convinced
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To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,
For in this sleep ...
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...
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GIRL234 EARLY BIRD
Oh, if you’re a bird, be an early bird
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"O...
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"...
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DOROTHY PARKER Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
a medley of extemporanea,
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer!
Never Forget!
Live e...
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JOHN CLAYTON It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my...
JOHN PRESCOTT My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.
JOHN TAVENER As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
JOHN MUIR Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B...
JOHN LAUTNER My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
JOHN WAYNE I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop...
JOHN WAYNE I've loved reading all my life.
JOHN WAYNE Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li...
JOHN WAYNE I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNE Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&...
JOHN WAYNE In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
JOHN WAYNE I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ...
JOHN WAYNE I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ...
JOHN WAYNE All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
JOHN WAYNE When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha...
JOHN WAYNE You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
JOHN ELWAY I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ...
JOHN ELWAY If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ...
JOHN WOODEN Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i...
JOHN LENNON Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
JOHN LUKACS Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
JOHN CIARDI It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...
JOHN CIARDI What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ...
JOHN CIARDI Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
JOHN CIARDI A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
JOHN CIARDI Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
JOHN CIARDI Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
JOHN CIARDI The day will happen whether or not you get up.
JOHN CIARDI You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI