Fitz Greene Halleck Quotes

#1. I sorrow that all fair things must decay.

Fitz-Greene Halleck

#2. And remember, following Christ is a lifelong journey. Christians are foot soldiers, so to speak. Always learning. Always growing stronger.

Robin Lee Hatcher

#3. Ere the dolphin dies
Its hues are brightest. Like an infant's breath
Are tropic winds before the voice of death.

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#4. Heaven would be a very hell to a wicked person.

David Berg

#5. Maybe... just maybe, the light can reach even the bottom of a dark ocean

Unknown

#6. But as I listened to my various mentors argue away the afternoon, I finally caught on to the basic point of it all. With chocolate, there are no straight answers. There are only strongly held opinions.

Mort Rosenblum

#7. There is no such thing as bad people. We're all just people who sometimes do bad things.

Colleen Hoover

#8. Come to the bridal-chamber, Death!
Come to the mother's, when she feels,
For the first time, her first-born's breath!
Come when the blessed seals
That close the pestilence are broke,
And crowded cities wail its stroke!

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#9. Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

Rudyard Kipling

#10. I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.

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#11. This bank-note world.

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#12. They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, And think it kindness to his majesty. - Fitz

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#13. And Burns
though brief the race he ran,
Though rough and dark the paths he trod,
Lived
died
in form and soul a man,
The image of his God.

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#14. None knew thee but to love thee.

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#15. Strike-for your altars and your fires;
Strike-for the green graves of your sires;
God-and your native land!

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#16. There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest.

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#17. Tirza, his youngest daughter, the one who turned out best. Turned out wonderfully, both inside and out.

Arnon Grunberg

#18. What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm.

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#19. It is a rich storehouse for those who love quotations. It is as full of fine bon mots as a Christmas pudding is full of plums.

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#20. You do not convince me. You rationalize your actions and because the result is favorable you become right.

David Gemmell

#21. And thou art terrible
the tear,
The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier;
And all we know, or dream, or fear
Of agony, are thine.

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#22. The wild-flower wreath of feeling, the sunbeam of the heart.

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#23. The individuals are tragically like marionettes, independently animate but bound by a web they choose not to see; they could resist if they wished, but so few of them do.

Ted Chiang

#24. I had a wonderful time playing Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies. It was a real Bond villain, over the top, almost laughable but dangerous.

Vincent Schiavelli

#25. Green be the turf above thee,
Friend of my better days!
None knew thee but to love thee,
Nor named thee but to praise.

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#26. The person who can freely acknowledge that life is full of difficulties can be free, because they are acknowledging the nature of life - that it can't be much else.

Shunryu Suzuki