"Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry."
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"But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays."
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"You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more."
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"For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go."
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"Fools, your reward is neither here nor there."
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"I can’t reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner; I can’t state at length what I’ve said curtly; I achieve an altered state that I can’t explain; I have a secret that I cannot share."
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"I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love."
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"Yes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read."
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"And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright."
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"To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe."
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"Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again."
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"The Flower that once has blown forever dies."
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"Indeed the Idols I have loved so long, have done my credit in this World much wrong; have drowned my Glory in a shallow Cup, and sold my Reputation for a Song."
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"He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere."
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"By the help of God and with His precious assistance, I say that Algebra is a scientific art. The objects with which it deals are absolute numbers and measurable quantities which, though themselves unknown, are related to "things" which are known, whereby the determination of the unknown quantities is possible."
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"The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on."
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"The unbeliever knows his Koran best."
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"Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!"
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"To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow."
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"Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire Would we not shatter it to bits-and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire?"
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