Author: TRADESOFT (---.anitex.by)
Date: 12-28-05 01:23
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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.
Myrtle Auvil
LXI
Is it thy will, thy image should keep open
My heavy eyelids to the weary night?
Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken,
While shadows like to thee do mock my sight?
Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee
So far from home into my deeds to pry,
To find out shames and idle hours in me,
The scope and tenure of thy jealousy?
O, no! thy love, though much, is not so great:
It is my love that keeps mine eye awake:
Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat,
To play the watchman ever for thy sake:
For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere,
From me far off, with others all too near.
--William Shakespeare
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in
despair.
C. S. Lewis, 'The Pilgrim's Regress'
Tis done. We have become a nation.
Benjamin Rush, on the ratification of the Constitution, letter to Boudinot, July 9, 1788