"Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, and silver hooks."
The Bait stanza 1
These lines are from a metaphysical poem, wherein men are fishers, and the fish are the women. The men hope to catch the women with "the bait" which is also the title of the poem.
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"A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble."
As quoted in Moderator-topics, Volume 5 (1884), pg. 175
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"The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence."
The Idler No. 39 (January 13, 1759)
Published in a series of one hundred and three essays, in a periodical likely to have been produced strictly for the essays themselves.
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"The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values."
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"Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting: that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past."
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Jackie Robinson was born in 1919 to Georgia sharecroppers. His talent as an athlete shined at UCLA, where he became the first student to win varsity letters in four sports. He didn't finish college due to financial problems, joining the army where he was discharged after objecting to racial discrimination there. He played a season with the Negro Baseball League then burst onto the national scene in 1947 when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, becoming the first African American major league player since 1889. He became Rookie of the Year and two years later, Most Valuable Player of the Ye…
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