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O thou child of many prayers! Life hath quicksand
life hath snares! -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- Maidenhood...
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Othello -- Act ii, Sc. 3...
O thou weed, Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been born.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Othello -- Act iv, Sc. 2...
O thou! whatever title please thine ear, Dean, Drapier, Bickerstaff, or Gulliver!
Whether thou choose Cervantes' serious air, Or laugh and shake in Rabelais' easy-chair....
O thou who dost inhabit in my breast, Leave not the mansion, so long tenantle
Lest growing ruinous the building fall, And leave no memory of what it was....
O thou, whose certain eye foresees The fix'd events of fate's remote decrees.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book iv, Line 627...
O, throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half.
-- William Shakespeare, Hamlet III, iv, 156-160....
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OTL Out To Lunch
O to be self-balanced for contingencies! O to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs as trees and animals do!
-- Walt Whitma...

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