I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.
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For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think;- And no man knows what then she may discover.Edwin A. Robinson
He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.
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The power is yours, but not the sight You see not upon what you tread You have the ages for your guide, But not the wisdom to be led.
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She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires.
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Black and unblossomed were the ways he knew, Dark was the glass through which his fire eye shined.
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I shall have more to say when I am dead.
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