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Quote from “Christmas Bells ” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/42002

I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Quote from “The Paradoxical Commandments” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/58051

People really need help
but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Kent M. Keith

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Quote from “In Memoriam 5”

I sometimes hold it half a sin
To put in words the grief I feel:
For words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within.

Alfred Tennyson

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Quote from “New Eyes For Old: Nonfiction Writings”

Any book that helps him to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

- Richard McKenna

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Quote from “Give! (1944)”

How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world!

Anne Frank

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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die,
for the harder I work the more I live.
I rejoice in life for its own sake.

George Bernard Shaw

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Quote from “Poetic Manifesto, Texas Quarterly (Winter 1961)”

You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it technically tick... You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words.

Dylan Thomas

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Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!

Frederick William Faber

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There is no lonelier man in death,
except the suicide,
than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her.
If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Ernest Hemingway

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Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.

John Steinbeck

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