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love.
Edvard Munch

XXIII



As an unperfect actor on the stage,

Who with his fear is put beside his part,

Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,

Whose strength\'s abundance weakens his own heart;

So I, for fear of trust, forget to say

The perfect ceremony of love\'s rite,

And in mine own love\'s strength seem to decay,

O\'ercharg\'d with burthen of mine own love\'s might. 

O! let my looks be then the eloquence

And dumb presagers of my speaking breast,

Who plead for love, and look for recompense,

More than that tongue that more hath more express\'d.

  O! learn to read what silent love hath writ:

  To hear with eyes belongs to love\'s fine wit.

 	--William Shakespeare

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for
the future.
Ronald Reagan

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right
is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat
you he will.
Ronald Reagan