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“My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.”

Long I Can Lasts Night Left Goal Sweet Dance Elegant Tango

Author:Robert Fulghum

“What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.”

World Stills Left Enjoy Hours Memories Sweet Peaceful Void

Book:The Works: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence and Translations : in Eight Volumes. ¬The poetical works, Vol. 1

Source: The Works: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence and Translations : in Eight Volumes. ¬The poetical works, Vol. 1

“Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.”

Mind Religion Jesus Left Secret Christianity Too Much Sweet Balance Method Intuition Catholicism Great Power Left Out Protestantism Reasonableness

Book:Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible

Source: Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible

“Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Youth goes, alack, and with it glee, A boy the old man ne'er can be; Maternal thirty scarce can find The sweet sixteen long left behind.”

Men Long Left Behinds Boys Youth Sweet Thirty Old Man Left Behind Scarce Sixteen Glee

Author:Arthur Hugh Clough

“But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.”

Has Beens Used Left Tree Streets Sweet Dust Dawn Touched Exposed Leafs

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, Completing him not otherwise complete! How void and useless the sad remnant left Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft.”

Men Left Women Sweet Useless Fulfillment Void Remnants Completing Bereft

Book:The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866

Source: The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866

“artists try to say things that can't be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling; a taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.”

Trying Said Feelings Artist Left Knowing Color Sweet Taste Longing Painful Frustration Capture Fragile Gestures

Author:Alan Alda

“The kid I was when I first left home Was looking for his freedom and a life of his own But the freedom that he found wasn't quite as sweet When the truth was known I have prayed for America I was made for America I can't let go till she comes around Until the land of the free Is awake and can see And until her conscience has been found.”

Firsts Has Beens Made I Can Home Kids America Found Left Peace Known Land Sweet Letting Go Conscience Awake Land Of The Free Can't Let Go

Author:Jackson Browne