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Oh, how with more than dreams the soul is torn, ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes.

With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.

Only the rich are lonesome.

All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life!

A song fluttered down in the form of a dove,
And it bore me a message, the one word-Love!

Love me, honey, love me true?
Love me well ez I love you?
An' she answe'd, " 'Cose I do"
Jump back, honey, jump back.

Washington is the city where the big men of little towns come to be disillusioned

I know what the caged bird feels, alas!

Money is a great dignifier.

Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.

But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.

You are sweet, O Love, dear Love,You are soft as the nesting dove.Come to my heart and bring it restAs the bird flies home to its welcome nest.

The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.

It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the year is dying.

We wear the mask that grins and lies.

Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.