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Fitz Greene Halleck Inspirational Quotes (10)

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Come to the bridal-chamber, Death! Come to the mother's, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath! Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke!
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Strike-for your altars and your fires Strike-for the green graves of your sires God-and your native land!
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This bank-note world.
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None knew thee but to love thee.
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There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest.
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And thou art terrible--the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine.
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Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise.
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I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.
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They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, And think it kindness to his majesty. - Fitz
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I sorrow that all fair things must decay.
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