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“Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth Of all sweet sounds the life and element!”

Soul Light Earth Sound Voice Issues Sweet Birth Elements Glory Fairs Clouds Luminous

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.”

Men Money Wife Birth Fame Fairs Lips Tongue Settling Heavenly Persuasion Venus Dames

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

“Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use, Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse.”

Use Birth Fairs Abuse Revolt Juliet Stumbling Romeo And Juliet Play Romeo And Juliet Juliet Friars Romeo And Juliet Important

Book:Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“The sum of all that makes a just man happy Consists in the well choosing of his wife: And there, well to discharge it, does require Equality of years, of birth, of fortune; For beauty being poor, and not cried up By birth or wealth, can truly mix with neither. And wealth, when there's such difference in years, And fair descent, must make the yoke uneasy.”

Men Years Wells Doe Differences Wealth Poor Wife Birth Fairs Fortune Cried Descent Matrimony Uneasy Yoke Discharge

Book:Elizabethan Drama II

Source: Elizabethan Drama II

“We hail the return of the day of thy birth, Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans Where men from the farthest dominions of earth Rear altars to Freedom, and pay their devotions; Where our fathers in fight, nobly strove for the Right, Struck down their fierce foemen or put them to flight; Through the long lapse of ages, that so there might be An asylum for all in the Land of the Free.”

Source: The microcosm, and other poems

“Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and pretend to be part of a more favored group. Fair-skinned blacks invented "passing" as a term, Jews escaping anti-Semitism perfected the art, and the sexual closet continues the punishment, but pretending to be a younger age is probably the most encouraged form of "passing," with the least organized support for "coming out" as one's true generational self.”

“I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.”

Should Firsts Seems Remember Wish Born Memories Air Dying Cold Birth Fairs Violent Shock Oxygen Lungs Cold Air

Book:Fever

Source: Fever

“Is there something I can help with?” “No,” Kat said petulantly. “You’re a man and I hate all of you right now.” He took two steps back. “Fair enough. Since my presence is obviously causing you pain, I’ll take my manhood outside to the terrace, where you can join me if you can overlook my obvious birth defect.”

Ifs Men Said I Can Two Enough Helping Pain Hate Steps Birth Right Now Fairs I Hate Obvious Manhood Defects Terrace Birth Defects

Book:Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel

Source: Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel