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Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.

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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
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Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.
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Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high give up the dream.
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You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.
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It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.
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what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches
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Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue
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I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.
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This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death I am alive!
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