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The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me. And I cannot, cannot go. The giant trees are bending. Their bare boughs weighed with snow; The storm is fast descending, And yet I cannot go. Clouds beyond clouds above me, Wastes beyond wastes below; But nothing drear can move me; I will not, cannot go. Emily Bronte
My business is, with all my might to serve my own generation; in doing so I shall best serve the next generation, should the Lord Jesus tarry... The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping. George Muller
Stephen Sondheim quote: "Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten."
Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten. Stephen Sondheim
John Philip Sousa quote: "My religion lies in my composition."
My religion lies in my composition. John Philip Sousa
The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare? Susan George
Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces. Charlie Dent
Honore de Balzac quote: "Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can..."
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. Honore de Balzac
The day, a compunctious Sunday after a week of blizzards, had been part jewel, part mud. In the midst of my usual afternoon stroll through the small hilly town attached to the girls' college where I taught French literature, I had stopped to watch a family of brilliant icicles drip-dripping from the eaves of a frame house. So clear-cut were their pointed shadows on the white boards behind them that I was sure the shadows of the falling drops should be visible too. But they were not. ("The... Vladimir Nabokov
Stanley Clarke quote: "The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you..."
The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know? Stanley Clarke
The simpler the food, the harder it is to prepare it well. You want to truly taste what it is you're eating. So that goes back to the trend of fine ingredients. It's very Japanese: Preparing good ingredients very simply, without distractions from the flavor of the ingredient itself. Joel Robuchon
Paul Eluard quote: "There is another world and it is in this one."
There is another world and it is in this one. Paul Eluard
I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it. Edward Irving
Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast. Robert Morgan
Adam Arkin quote: "What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any..."
What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film. Adam Arkin
Winston Churchill quote: "My dear, in the morning I will be sober, but you will still be..."
My dear, in the morning I will be sober, but you will still be ugly. Winston Churchill