He who lives in hopes, breakfasts ill and sups worse.
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Give me October's meditative haze
Give me October's meditative haze,
Its gossamer mornings, dewy-wimpled eves,
Dewy and fragrant, fragrant and secure,
The long slow sound of farmward-wending wains,
When homely Love sups quiet 'mid his sheaves,
Sups 'mid his sheaves, his sickle at his side,
And all is peace, peace and plump fruitfulness.
poem by Alfred Austin
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He who sups with the devil has need of a long spoon.
He who sups with the devil must have a long spoon.
He who sups with the Devil should have a long spoon.
He should have a long spoon who sups with the devil.
He must have a long spoon who sups with the devil.
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
quote by W. Somerset Maugham
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He should have a long shafted spoon that sups kail with the Devil.
The sleepy fox has seldom feathered breakfasts.
The fool sucks wisdom, as he porter sups, And cobblers grow fine speakers in their cups.
Life's Valley of Isolation
Put an end
On the journey of life
Where
Loneliness
And
Isolationcomes in
With depression
And discolor our lives
In
Life's valley
And
Know that only
We have the power
To bring back hopes
In our lives....................
poem by Seema Chowdhury
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If Tomorrow
We sit in silent dreams
away from our reality
dreaming our wishes,
our hopes and our prayers
wondering if tomorrow
the world will stop and realise
our wishes hopes and prayers.
We ask so little to be granted,
in the whole scheme of things
and allowing us just one
who know,
could fulfil our lives.
(5 July 2011)
poem by David Harris
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Honest Thoughts
where do we go from here?
our lives controlled by mechanical arms,
that oppress and drive without conscience.
we've been fed for years on a steady diet
of lies, of half truths, of illusions.
and now the walls of the false kingdom
have come tumbling down...
we have been driven by fear to participate
in their unholy wars... by misguided images
of patriotism... by a graven image of what's
right and wring...
and we're not buying it anymore!
the American dream has crumbled... we're
jobless, homeless, desperate, and hungry!
maybe that's what it took to open our eyes!
they've taken away our hope of a future...
and even worse, our children's hopes. now it's
time for us to stand up and take it back!
poem by Eric Cockrell
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If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.
quote by Auberon Herbert
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.
quote by Daniel Berrigan
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The Duck
Behold the duck.
It does not cluck.
A cluck it lacks.
It quacks.
It is specially fond
Of a puddle or pond.
When it dines or sups,
It bottoms ups.
poem by Ogden Nash
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