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"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"
----William Shakespeare
We should be careful
Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time
---Philip Larkin, Collected Poems
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The child is father of the man:
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
----William Wordsworth
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Swans sing before they die— 't were no bad thing
Should certain persons die before they sing.
---Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.
----Philip Larkin, High Windows
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Ah, why should all mankind
For one man's fault, be condemned,
If guiltless?
----John Milton, Paradise Lost
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The breath that sharpens life is life itself.
----Philip Larkin, Collected Poems
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Critics! Appalled I ventured on the name.
Those cutthroat bandits in the paths of fame.
----Robert Burns
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