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• At ebb tide I wrote a line upon the sand, and gave it all my heart and all my soul.
  At flood tide I returned to read what I had inscribed and found my ignorance upon the shore....
• Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes of Harvard Medical School inhaled ether at a time when it was popularly supposed to produce such mystical or "mind-expanding" experience
  much as LSD is supposed to produce such experiences today....
• I told the police that I was not injured, but upon removing my hat, I found that I had a fractured skull.
  -- Excerpt from insurance form....
• Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Imitation of Horace, Book iii, Ode 29, Line 71...
• May I call myself bad names and stomp upon ALL my toes!
• I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Othello -- Act i, Sc. 1...
• I sold my soul to the Devil. He gave it back.
• Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years! I am so weary of toil and of tears,-- Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!
  Take them, and give me my childhood again!...
• I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care I have bestowed upon the greatest.
  -- Charles Dicke...