"Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits."
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"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."
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"There is an eagle in me that wants to soar."
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"Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
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"Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits."
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"Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence."
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"It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?"
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"Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder."
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"I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world."
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"Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings."
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"I want to do the right thing, but often I don't know just what the right thing is. Every day I know I have come short of what I would like to have done. Yet as the years pass and I see the very world itself, with its oceans and mountains and plains, as something unfinished, a peculiar little satisfaction hunts out the corners of my heart. Sunsets and evening shadows find me regretful at task's undone, but sleep and the dawn and the air of the morning touch me with freshening hopes. Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny."
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"The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on."
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"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."
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"Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes."
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"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."
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"Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent."
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"There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud."
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"Nothing happens unless first we dream."
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"Under the harvest moon, When the soft silver Drips shimmering Over the garden nights, Death, the gray mocker, Comes and whispers to you As a beautiful friend Who remembers."
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"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."
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