Wealth without real worthiness
Is no good for the neighbourhood;
But their proper mixture
Is the summit of beatitude.
Sappho
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MUSIC OF THE UNIVERSE
Ghandi's seven sins:
Without sound,
No rest 
Fortune is no real thing.
We grow old without knowing the reason.
The Seven Social Sins are:
There is no religion without love, 
Bastions of wealth
Even when I was a very young man,
Life is but a day;
No rest without love, 
Poetry is an act of love. 
The Moth don't care when he sees The Flame. 
One day, I stopped hating.
What is so real as the cry of a child?
The Manger of Incidentals "
The people have a right supreme
I said to my soul
Nine requisites for contented living: 
True words aren't eloquent;
BRITANNUS (shocked).
Patience, though I have not 
And I think that's the story of our generation's pursuit of fulfillment in relationships. We wished ... 
Play me something that makes me feel;
Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience".
-Desiderata-
NEVER GIVE UP
I saw the tears of the oppressed—
And in despair I bowed my head;
So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near--
There is no Frigate like a Book 
For some there is no music
For all these stars,
You shall go with me, newly-married bride,
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Since there is no real silence, 
And I — my head oppressed by horror — said:
But Carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way:
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What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
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Love Was
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THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF GASTRONOMY 
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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze 
On Pleasure
To my babies,
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
Oh, the torment bred in the race, 
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