We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
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My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where its going.Edna St. Vincent Millay
I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year.
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I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.
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Beauty never slumbers All is in her name But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.
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Her lawn looks like a meadow, And if she mows the place She leaves the clover standing And the Queen Anne's Lace.
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