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There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

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Donald Hall

To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a grandfather dies. Then we row for years on the midsummer pond, ignorant and content.

Grandfather, Heads, Ignorant, Years, Young
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We learned how to love each other by loving together good things wholly outside each other.

Good, How To Love, Loving, Marriage, Things, Together

Some of us are darkness lovers. We do not dislike the early and late daylight of June, but we cherish the increasing dark of November, which we wrap around ourselves in the prosperous warmth of wood stove, oil and electric blanket. Inside our warmth we fold ourselves, partly tuber, partly bear, in the dark and its cold - around us, outside us, safely away from us. We tuck ourselves up in the comfort of cold's opposite, warming ourslves by thought of the cold, lighting ourselves by darkness's idea.

Dark, Ideas, Oil, Safely, Warming

If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.

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Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons.

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Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.

Continuing, Desire, Hard Work, Work, Writing
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