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| That's What Living is To Me, Jimmy Buffett |
Be good and you will be lonesome. Be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it. That's what living is to me. | ||||||||||||||||
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HOW DO I LOVE THEE? LET ME COUNT THE WAYS. I LOVE THEE TO THE DEPTH AND BREADTH AND HEIGHT MY SOUL CAN REACH, WHEN FEELING OUT OF SIGHT FOR THE ENDS OF BEING AND IDEAL GRACE. I LOVE THEE TO THE LEVEL OF EVERYDAY'S MOST QUIET NEED, BY SUN AND CANDLELIGHT. I LOVE THEE FREELY, AS MEN STRIVE FOR RIGHT; I LOVE THEE PURELY, AS THEY TURN FROM PRAISE. I LOVE THEE WITH THE PASSION PUT TO USE IN MY OLD GRIEFS, AND WITH MY CHILDHOOD'S FAITH. I LOVE THEE WITH A LOVE I SEEMED TO LOSE WITH MY LOST SAINTS, -- I LOVE THEE WITH THE BREATH, SMILES, TEARS, OF ALL MY LIFE! -- AND, IF GOD CHOOSE, I SHALL BUT LOVE THEE BETTER AFTER DEATH. --ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING | SONNET 43, BROWNING | ||||||||||||||||
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| SONNET 138, SHAKESPEARE |
WHEN MY LOVE SWEARS THAT SHE IS MADE OF TRUTH, I DO BELIEVE HER, THOUGH I KNOW SHE LIES, THAT SHE MIGHT THINK ME SOME UNTUTOR'D YOUTH, UNLEARNED IN THE WORLD'S FALSE SUBTLETIES. THUS VAINLY THINKING THAT SHE THINKS ME YOUNG, ALTHOUGH SHE KNOWS MY DAYS ARE PAST THE BEST, SIMPLY I CREDIT HER FALSE-SPEAKING TONGUE: ON BOTH SIDES THUS IS SIMPLE TRUTH SUPPREST. BUT WHEREFORE SAY NOT I THAT I AM OLD? O, LOVE'S BEST HABIT IS IN SEEMING TRUST, AND AGE IN LOVE LOVES NOT TO HAVE YEARS TOLD: THEREFORE I LIE WITH HER AND SHE WITH ME, AND IN OUR FAULTS BY LIES WE FLATTER'D BE. | ||||||||||||||||
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