O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.
Walt WhitmanRead
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O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
Write your Sad times in Sand,_x000D_ _x000D_ Write your Good times in Stone.
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone!
Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.
The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.
I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.
We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.
When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.
Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.
Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.
Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.
We can do no great things-only small things with great love.
We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.
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