I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
quote by Thomas Jefferson
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Be meaningful.
Attending a function,
Without meeting the host
Or recording your visit
Is as good as not attending.
Letters must be replied.
Receipts must be acknowledged.
Love must be requited.
Gifts should be compensated.
09.12.2011
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Open Table
MANY a guest I'd see to-day,
Met to taste my dishes!
Food in plenty is prepar'd,
Birds, and game, and fishes.
Invitations all have had,
All proposed attending.
Johnny, go and look around!
Are they hither wending?
Pretty girls I hope to see,
Dear and guileless misses,
Ignorant how sweet it is
Giving tender kisses.
Invitations all have had,
All proposed attending.
Johnny, go and look around!
Are they hither wending?
Women also I expect,
Loving tow'rd their spouses,
Whose rude grumbling in their breasts
Greater love but rouses.
Invitations they've had too,
All proposed attending!
Johnny, go and look around!
Are they hither wending?
I've too ask'd young gentlemen,
Who are far from haughty,
And whose purses are well-stock'd,
Well-behaved, not haughty.
These especially I ask'd,
All proposed attending.
Johnny, go and look around!
Are they hither wending?
Men I summon'd with respect,
Who their own wives treasure;
Who in ogling other Fair
Never take a pleasure.
To my greetings they replied,
All proposed attending.
Johnny, go and look around!
Are they hither wending?
Then to make our joy complete,
Poets I invited,
Who love other's songs far more
Than what they've indited.
All acceded to my wish,
All proposed attending.
Johnny, go and look around!
Are they hither wending?
Not a single one appears,
None seem this way posting.
All the soup boils fast away,
Joints are over-roasting.
Ah, I fear that we have been
Rather too unbending!
Johnny, tell me what you think!
None are hither wending.
Johnny, run and quickly bring
Other guests to me now!
Each arriving as he is--
That's the plan, I see now.
In the town at once 'tis known,
Every one's commending.
Johnny, open all the doors:
All are hither wending!
poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You know, I've been attending so many banquets that I know what they're going to serve before I get there.
quote by Knute Rockne
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Justice that's pending is injustice attending.
The Ground of Life
I am alone
in my high-back chair, listening,
attending to every sound, the breeze
through fluid curtains
strokes my thinning hair,
whispers poems
into eager ears
of the soft moaning of the dove
who warms her thin eggs
alone in that small place
above our front-porch,
telling me that love
is certain.
poem by Steven Federle
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Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
quote by Robert Burton
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Being hospitable is more important than attending synagogue service early in the morning.
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
quote by Michael Korda
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
quote by John Burroughs
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Ms. Quoting a Diddly
Miss Quoting rode a pony,
that was too small
for her fat fanny.
It seems her legs
were a bit wobbly,
and she was eventually
put into retirement.
I know it is true because,
I myself have
visited her once or twice.
Ms. Quoting met with ignorance,
a friend of mine to whom college was attending.
Punctuation was a problem in her behavior.
So she was sentenced
to a life of ill-repute.
I received the impression
that english was not her language,
and she was literally challenged.
poem by Patricia Dobrosipearson
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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
quote by Miguel de Cervantes
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Religion Is A Hobby
Preaching is a profession
Attending it is an entertainment
Like dancing and singing
Religion is taken as a hobby
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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We began a series of court battles for nine months, while I was attending classes by telephone.
quote by Ryan White
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My Tripping
early morning masses
are what i am attending to daily
i am reporting
all my enemies to the Lord
may all of them be
enlightened
and at the end befriend
themselves.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.
quote by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
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Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert.
quote by June Allyson
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Today We Are Living
The candles have been lighted
The song has been sung
The funeral that we are attending
Is not the last to come
Although he is gone
Let’s not put a fret
But live for today
Don’t worry about debt
poem by Kiana Valdez
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Halcyon Days
Halcyon days, now wars are ending.
You shall find where-e'er you sail
Tritons all the while attending
With a kind and gentle gale.
poem by Thomas Shadwell
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I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.
quote by Erma Bombeck
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