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Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.
May Sarton
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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
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May Eleanor Sarton
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all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
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A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward to reset oneself by an inner compass.
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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
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Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons.
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Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.
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