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• Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature. -- Lord Chesterton, Lette
• How small a part of time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
  -- Edmund Waller (1605-1687) -- Go, Lovely Rose...
• YOKE, n. An implement, madam, to whose Latin name
  _jugum_, we owe one of the most illuminating words in our language -- a word that defines the matrimonial situation with precision, point and poignancy....
• Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
  -- Bishop Hall (1574-1656) -- Epistles, Dec, iii, Ep, 2...
• Edmund Blackadder: After all, did not Our Lord send a lowly earthworm to comfort Moses in his torment?
  Prince George:No. -- Blackadder, Duel and Duality...
• And keeps the palace of the soul. -- Edmund Waller (1605-1687) -- Of Tea
• Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
  -- Edmund Waller (1605-1687) -- Upon Roscommon's Translation of Horace, De Arte Poetica...
• Our patience will achieve more than our force. -- Edmund Burke
• For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear (believe the aged friend), Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,-- How love might be, hath been indeed, and is.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- A Death in the Dese...