Poems List

Lydia Maria Child

A comfortable old age is

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

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Lydia Maria Child

Blessed indeed is the man

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!

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Lydia Maria Child

The cure for all the

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

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Lydia Maria Child

Flowers have spoken to me

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.

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Richard Dawkins

This is the law that

This is the law that all life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities.

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Richard Dawkins

The God of the Old

The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction...

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Tennessee Williams

Bohemia has no banner. It

Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion.

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Richard Dawkins

However many ways there are

However many ways there are of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive.

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Tennessee Williams

We have to distrust each

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

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Tennessee Williams

You've got many refinements. I

You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got through short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with.

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Tennessee Williams

When so many are lonely

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

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Tennessee Williams

Time rushes toward us with

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

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Tennessee Williams

In memory everything seems to

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

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Tennessee Williams

Everyone says he's sincere, but

Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!

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Tom Zegan

Have you ever used Diet

Have you ever used Diet Shampoo before? It's for people with Fat Heads.

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Tennessee Williams

A high station in life

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

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Tom Zegan

Question for the Family Feud

Question for the Family Feud game show: "Name something that you can't say on TV.

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Oswald Chambers

The dearest friend on earth

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

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Oswald Chambers

When it is a question

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, I can't.

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Oswald Chambers

Books are standing counselors and

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

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Oswald Chambers

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity.

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

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Oswald Chambers

We look upon the enemy

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

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Oswald Chambers

Faith is deliberate confidence in

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

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Oswald Chambers

A good book, in the

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

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