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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Age: 58 †
Born: 1892
Born: February 22
Died: 1950
Died: October 19
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Not Truth, but Faith it is that keeps the world alive.
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The heart grows weary after a little Of what it loved for a little while.
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I am not at all in favor of hard work for its own sake many people who work very hard indeed produce terrible things, and should most certainly not be encouraged.
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This have I known always: Love is no more than the wide blossom which the wind assails, than the great tide that treads the shifting shore, strewing fresh wreckage gathered in the gales Pity me that the heart is slow to learn, that the swift mind beholds at every turn.
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What should I be but just what I am?
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Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.
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If ever I said in grief or pride, I'd tired of honest things, I lied.
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I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death I am not on his pay-roll.
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Evil alone has oil for every wheel.
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We think-although of course, now, we very seldom Clearly think- That the other side of War is Peace.
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Lord I do fear / Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year.
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Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?
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Life has no friend.
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Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written.
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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.
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This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way.
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There is no shelter in you anywhere.
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Not for the flag Of any land because myself was born there Will I give up my life. But I will love that land where man is free, And that will I defend.
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But far, oh, far as passionate eye can reach, And long, ah, long as rapturous eye can cling, The world is mine: blue hill, still silver lake, Broad field, bright flower, and the long white road A gateless garden, and an open path: My feet to follow, and my heart to hold.
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Stranger, pause and look From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I!
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