Charles G. Halpine (used pseudonym Miles O'Reilly) quote: "When asked what State he hails from, Our sole reply shall be, He comes from Appomattox And its famous apple tree."

It was brown with a golden gloss, Janette, It was finer than silk of the floss, my pet; 'Twas ...
CHARLES G. HALPINE (USED PSEUDONYM MILES O'REILLY)

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure--and for such a tomb migh...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

A woman asked a coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window a...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Who first invented work, and bound the free And holyday-rejoicing spirit down . . . To that dr...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

"Presents," I often say, endear Absents."
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present wi...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! [Fr...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

The game [of poker] exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice ...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Suck, baby! suck! mother's love grows by giving: Drain the sweet founts that only thrive by wast...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

I'm not final because I'm right, I'm right because I'm final.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Half as sober as a judge.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit ...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed;...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that ...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Neat, not gaudy.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Sometimes … I think parents work so hard to keep us from making their mistakes, they won’t allow...
CHARLES SHEEHAN-MILES

They say man rules the universe, That subject shore and main Kneel down and bless the empery ...
WILLIAM STEWART ROSS (USED PSEUDONYM SALADIN)

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature. - Josiah Gilbert Holland (use...
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND (USED PSEUDONYM TIMOTHY TITCOMB)

Der Kaiser of dis Faderland, Und Gott on high all dings commands, We two--ach! Don't you unde...
ALEXANDER MCGREGOR ROSE (USED PSEUDONYM A.M.R. GORDON)

Circumstances alter cases.
THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON (USED PSEUDONYM SAM SLICK)

Sing away, ay, sing away, Merry little bird Always gayest of the gay, Though a woodland ...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

The buttercups across the field Made sunshine rifts of splendor.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

A slender young Blackbird built in a thorn-tree: A spruce little fellow as ever could be; His ...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt; Unwritten history! ...
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND (USED PSEUDONYM TIMOTHY TITCOMB)

Autumn Into earth's lap does throw Brown apples gay in a game of play, As the equinoctia...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

Sweet April-time--O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow Of promise, and r...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

Prosperity is a feeble reed. [Fr., C'est un faible roseau que la prosperite.]
JEAN DE SCHELANDRE (USED PSEUDONYM DANIEL D'ANCHERES)

With faces like dead lovers who died true.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

O how grandly cometh Even, Sitting on the mountain summit, Purple-vestured, grave, and silent,...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

How bright the sunshine dances in its joy, O'er the still flow of this majestic river!
JOHN WILSON (2) (USED PSEUDONYM CHRISTOPHER NORTH)

Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,-- So rolls the cha...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight, And...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born t...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our eart...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

To-morrow is, ah, whose?
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

A secret at home is like rocks under tide.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

I said to the Nightingale: "Hail, all hail! Pierce with thy trill the dark, Like a glitt...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

I said to the sky-poised Lark: "Hark--hark! Thy note is more loud and free Because there...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as the tim...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

Forgotten? No, we never do forget: We let the years go; wash them clean with tears, Leave the...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its wi...
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND (USED PSEUDONYM TIMOTHY TITCOMB)

I took the wren's nest;-- Heaven forgive me! Its merry architects so small Had scarcely ...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

I said to the brown, brown thrush: "Hush, hush! Through the wood's full strains I hear T...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)

Circumstances alter cases.
THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON USED PSEUDONYM SAM SLICK

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
CHARLES G. DAWES

American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.
CHARLES G. DAWES

[Continued from yesterday] 4. When the church finds its members falling into gross and scandalous ...
CHARLES G. FINNEY

1. When there is a want of brotherly love and Christian confidence among professors of religion, the...
CHARLES G. FINNEY

Georgia-Pacific is a highly respected company with great businesses and a strong history as a market...
CHARLES G. KOCH

Today convenience is the success factor of just about every type of product and service that is show...
CHARLES G. MORTIMER

The creeping notion that additives are badditives.
CHARLES G. MORTIMER

I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was l...
CHARLES G. FINNEY

Joe's tremendous leadership throughout his six years as Koch Industries' president and chief operati...
CHARLES G. KOCH

Joe's tremendous leadership throughout his six years as president and chief operating officer gives ...
CHARLES G. KOCH

Our youth we can have but to-day; We may always find time to grow old.
ANTHONY BERKELEY (A.B. COX) (USED PSEUDONYM FRANCIS ILES)

Discord, a sleepless hag who never dies, With Snipe-like nose, and Ferret-glowing eyes, Lean s...
DR. JOHN WOLCOT (WOLCOTT) (USED PSEUDONYM PETER PINDAR)

Surely as cometh the Winter, I know There are Spring violets under the snow.
ROBERT H. NEWELL (USED PSEUDONYM ORPHEUS C. KERR)

Talk no more of the lucky escape of the head From a flint so unhappily thrown; I think very di...
DR. JOHN WOLCOT (WOLCOTT) (USED PSEUDONYM PETER PINDAR)

[T]he music's pure algebra of enchantment.
CONRAD POTTER AIKEN (USED PSEUDONYM SAMUEL JEAKE, JR.)

Mistakes remember'd are not faults forgot. - Robert H. Newell (used pseudonym Orpheus C. Kerr)...
ROBERT H. NEWELL (USED PSEUDONYM ORPHEUS C. KERR)

I feel in every smile a chain.
DR. JOHN WOLCOT (WOLCOTT) (USED PSEUDONYM PETER PINDAR)

I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
VERA MILES

I couldn't kill a fly.
VERA MILES

It’s like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of shit...
MILES DAVIS

It is junk science. There's no peer review. It's jumping from one conclusion to the next.
AARON MILES

Oh, yeah, it's right here, from that play. I thought it was (a foul). He (ref) kind of hesitated, th...
AARON MILES

I'm here as an infielder and a ballplayer and wherever they put me in, that's where I'll be. Second ...
AARON MILES

He was put in a situation where he's had an opportunity to play a lot, and his confidence is growing...
AARON MILES

Of all the hype he received in college, I thought he deserved it,
AARON MILES

The last couple of games, we kind of got away from [giving Wayne the ball]. You've got to give him t...
AARON MILES

Whether it be just for the purpose of practice, an extra body pushing Baron and Derek and Monta, I s...
AARON MILES

if not here then for someone else.
AARON MILES

I hurt my (right) foot when I fouled off a ball (a few days ago). I couldn't run.
AARON MILES

There are a lot of questions around here.
AARON MILES

Just like the strangers who'd fed me in El Salvador or South Africa, I was going to have to see and ...
SARA MILES

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
MILES DAVIS

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
MILES DAVIS

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.
MILES DAVIS

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find ...
MILES DAVIS

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
MILES DAVIS

It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.
MILES FRANKLIN

There's a little bit of hooker in every woman. A little bit of hooker and a little bit of God.
SARAH MILES

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
MILES DAVIS

My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my l...
MILES DAVIS

No one knew much about the Twenty-Eighth Infantry. It was not a glamour outfit. They knew about the ...
MILES WATSON

Going to high school in rural Florida, we always partied down in the woods. Somebody - one of the re...
MILES TELLER

First play I ever did was 'Footloose.' I played the part of Willard when I was 16. I think I...
MILES TELLER

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I...
MILES DAVIS

I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the lig...
MILES DAVIS

A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you liste...
MILES DAVIS

This was a bittersweet day. You work all your life for this, and then it's done.
ASHLEY MILES

That's an event that just comes second-nature to me. This was very important. When it comes to indiv...
ASHLEY MILES

I think we had more team unity tonight than we've had all season. We performed well tonight. We knew...
ASHLEY MILES

It'll be different as seniors. You need to be mentally tough yourself so they can look at you for an...
ASHLEY MILES

I think we had more team unity tonight than we've had all season,
ASHLEY MILES

The execution was really there on the floor. That's one event that we have under our belt that we ju...
ASHLEY MILES

I thought I personally played very well, ... Our coaches kept saying that our goal going into this w...
ASHLEY MILES

I couldn't have done any better. I knew if I nailed that first vault and took the sting in my ankles...
ASHLEY MILES

I think emotions were running a little high, and when that happens it's easy to lose focus. As a tea...
ASHLEY MILES

You'd be surprised. Drummers ape each other. The way every rock n' roll record sounds like s...
MILES DAVIS

Two Trees
A portion of your soul has been
entwined with mine
A gentle kind of togethe...
JANET MILES

I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing,...
MILES TELLER

I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
MILES DAVIS

If you understood everything I said, you’d be me
MILES DAVIS

You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line... We're just going to have to go out there ...
MILES DAVIS

My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenil...
MILES TELLER

English history turned on Henry VIII and his desires, his whims almost. And it was down to Cromwell ...
BEN MILES

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called lo...
MILES FRANKLIN

Were excited to have Earl join our staff. He comes to LSU highly recommended. He did a great job at ...
LES MILES

Absolutely, 'Rabbit Hole' gave me a nice first introduction into film acting.
MILES TELLER

'Footloose' is a fun movie. If you do it right, people should leave wanting to dance.
MILES TELLER

The music I was really listening to in 1968 was James Brown, the great guitar player Jimi Hendrix, a...
MILES DAVIS

It's a testament to the resourcefulness of all concerned and the underlying attractiveness of the st...
MILES SALTIEL

That's soccer. I feel bad for my seniors that worked so hard. We took a step in the right direction.
ERIC MILES

The worst areas have been picked up along the sound and beach. It's been an ongoing issue. There's s...
MILES ANDERSON

I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like '...
MILES TELLER

This has been a good quarter for Sony Ericsson, proving that our strategy of expanding the product p...
MILES FLINT

They received their orders, they snapped their heels, and they did as they were told, didn’t they?...
MILES O'BRIEN

I think there was a sense of urgency in the locker room. I don't think anybody wants to celebrate wi...
LES MILES

optimistic for a full recovery.
LES MILES

I am mocking. Yes.
MILES O'BRIEN

Remember when Adric drove that freighter full of antimatter into the Earth, and wiped out the dinosa...
LAWRENCE MILES

Sarah smiled, one of those little childish smiles she was so good at. It very nearly broke the Docto...
LAWRENCE MILES

[But] he could never take an audience seriously. If he took their advice, what they liked, that woul...
BARRY MILES

[Zappa was also a master producer.] He had taken an interest in school in harmony and the most basic...
BARRY MILES

He began life writing classical music, ... He didn't actually write his first rock 'n roll song unti...
BARRY MILES

Frank was a sort of anthropologist in that sense. He really celebrated these lives, and these people...
BARRY MILES

It (the shoulder) just hasn't gotten better fast enough.
LES MILES

This has been a good quarter for Sony Ericsson, proving that our strategy of expanding the product p...
MILES FLINT

We expect prices to fluctuate within a fairly narrow range according to local supply and demand, wit...
MILES SHIPSIDE

There was a halo effect on the lower-end products. We're getting volume and traction all around the ...
MILES FLINT

I saw it. I thought it was silly.
AARON MILES

I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
MILES DAVIS

I think he's comfortable as our starting quarterback.
LES MILES

Jeff has made significant contributions to our Pharmaceutical Products Group and we wish him well in...
MILES WHITE

These national distinctions validate the effectiveness of our rigorous due diligence process in deli...
DAVID MILES

I am kind of upset about Miss America being held in Las Vegas. I just don't want the image of Las Ve...
DEBBIE MILES

I saw several acts of good sportsmanship, too.
LES MILES

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!
MILES DAVIS

Then a guy said, 'Well, you know, 12 victories is probably just what we'd like, Coach,' ... I said, ...
LES MILES

We cannot sustain the mistakes that we made, and I will not allow it,
LES MILES

I actually thought we were going to win in overtime. I couldn't believe that we didn't win the game.
LES MILES

We had families of our players staying in the dormitory with them, and still do,
LES MILES

It looks like it's going to stall out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. It should just continue t...
MILES LAWRENCE

It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's ...
MILES DAVIS

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
MILES DAVIS

I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, o...
MILES DAVIS

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning . . . Every day I ...
MILES DAVIS

Of course, because I was at the beginning of my career. For me, as a musician, to have a chance for ...
MILES DAVIS

I learned so much from my cousin (Alexander). I think he did things the right way. That's how he mad...
MILES DAVIS

The teams had to use 20 or more steps, but all of them used many more than that. It is fun and excit...
MILES DAVIS

We have an annual district inspection and a five-year thorough inspection with the Corps.
MILES WALDRON

Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles We are so farre off from condemning any of their l...
MILES SMITH

Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus The blessed son of God only In a crib full poor did lie...
MILES COVERDALE

It certainly wasn't a stellar competition or performance on our part. But the team rallied, never ga...
MILES AVERY

The invitational was very competitive, as it usually is. This tournament had some of the best teams ...
MILES AVERY

The team has looked pretty good. Thinking where this team was going to be, in terms of being a very ...
MILES AVERY

We expect that they are going to improve. Listening to them they weren't at full strength and by the...
MILES AVERY

Jimmy was amazing. After not performing well on floor on the first day of competition, he did what h...
MILES AVERY

It was a great year for the squad. We went undefeated in the Big Ten and won the Big Ten Championshi...
MILES AVERY

I am proud of how the team is improving each week. However, we didn't finish the meet tonight. We ha...
MILES AVERY

Illinois is a good team. They are one of the toughest competitors in the Big Ten and nation. The Ohi...
MILES AVERY

It's always nice to get a win against a top-team like Illinois. There were some good performances to...
MILES AVERY

We have changed our training a little this year; our routines have gotten longer. To get prepared fo...
MILES AVERY

If I get drafted, it would really be great for the Monmouth program in terms of getting the name out...
MILES AUSTIN

It's pretty cool to be around those guys, they're down-to-earth guys.
MILES AUSTIN

It kind of shocks you a little bit.
MILES AUSTIN

Those guys are good, those guys are great, that's why they went to the colleges they went to. All I ...
MILES AUSTIN

There's different things (training) on different days. Mondays and Wednesdays we run at another faci...
MILES AUSTIN

She's about 40 pounds. She just sits there until I get annoyed.
MILES AUSTIN

It's getting pretty intense. Every day has been ticking by. I just want to get there. The anticipati...
MILES AUSTIN

Prince got some Marvin Gaye and Jimi Hendrix and Sly in him, also, even Little Richard. He's a m...
MILES DAVIS

The key is that no matter to what extent we played close to our opponent, we still found a way to wi...
LES MILES

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
MILES DAVIS

I think it stems from a basic insecurity, originally, but also a sense of superiority,
BARRY MILES

It was a long possession. It seemed like 20 seconds.
AARON MILES

You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line, ... We're just going to have to go out there an...
MILES DAVIS

This is the biggest thing since the state championship.
BRANDON MILES

It was nothing like I thought it would be, I actually laughed and felt everything that went on in th...
BRANDON MILES

I probably would never have gone to see this in a theater but it's free and it's a Monday so why not...
BRANDON MILES

(Wells) drives a Corvette and didn't have room for Buddy and her child.
DONNA MILES

His father was an ass and he is an ass. I imagine sooner than I should like I shall be playing uncle...
T.A. MILES

When you receive, they've influenced you. When you give, you've influenced them.
BORRIS MILES

My people are voting for change. Fifty-two percent of people agree that it is time for a change.
BORRIS MILES

An unwise advisor cannot hope to advise wisely.
T.A. MILES

I want to take the benefits of what I'm doing now, and offer it to as many people as can hear it. Yo...
DAVID MILES

It's unfortunate this happened. Why it happened, I don't know, but it did happen, and I don't think ...
LINDA MILES

I think one of the attractions to the Grand Rapids area is water quality.
BILL MILES

It's a prestigious award that recognizes the drive, dedication and entrepreneurial spirit of Patrici...
BILL MILES

When asked what State he hails from, Our sole reply shall be, He comes from Appomattox And its famous apple tree.

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