I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem. - Fitz-Greene Halleck

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You are responsible for your life. It doesn't matter what your Mama did. It doesn't matter what your Daddy didn't do. You are responsible for your life.

Fitz-Greene Halleck

I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.

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Strike-for your altars and your fires; Strike-for the green graves of your sires; God-and your native land!

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They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, And think it kindness to his majesty. - Fitz

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There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest.

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Ere the dolphin dies Its hues are brightest. Like an infant's breath Are tropic winds before the voice of death.

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The wild-flower wreath of feeling, the sunbeam of the heart.

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Arnold J. Toynbee

Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

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