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Not Truth, but Faith it is that keeps the world alive.
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 poppy, nor mandrake, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep, Which thou owest yesterday.
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Beauty in all things-no, we cannot hope for that but some place set apart for it.
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My candle burns at both ends it will not last the night but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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Beauty never slumbers All is in her name But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.
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I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.
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One things there's no getting by, I've been a wicked girl, Says I... But, if I can't be sorry I might as well be glad !
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Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the rose.
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Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another it is one damn thing over and over.
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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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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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That which has quelled me, lives with me, Accomplice in catastrophe.
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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.
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Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.
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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
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Lord I do fear / Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year.
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She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine.
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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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Strange how few, After alls said and done, the things that are Of moment.
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Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill is daily spun, But there exists no loom to weave it into fabric.
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