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“There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours oblivion.”
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Anne Reeve Aldrich
Source : Anne Reeve Aldrich (1899). “A Village Ophelia”
#Insomnia Quotes
#World Quotes
#Oblivion Quotes
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“I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears.”
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Anne Reeve Aldrich
Source : Anne Reeve Aldrich (1899). “A Village Ophelia”
#Laughter Quotes
#Flower Quotes
#Sorrow Quotes
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“Love's the little leaven that works the whole world glad.”
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Anne Reeve Aldrich
Source : Anne Reeve Aldrich (1889). “The Rose of Flame: And Other Poems of Love”
#World Quotes
#Littles Quotes
#Glad Quotes
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“Words? I tell you not to write me letters; I command you. Is it not enough to want you so in vain, but you send me what evokes you here before me -- this paper, all along whose lines your hand has lain?”
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Anne Reeve Aldrich
Source : Anne Reeve Aldrich (1893). “Nadine and Other Poems”
#Writing Quotes
#Hands Quotes
#Paper Quotes
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“I bought the sweetness with this pain.”
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Anne Reeve Aldrich
#Pain Quotes
#Sweetness Quotes
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“All's well with thee if thou art in just hands.”
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Anne Reeve Aldrich
Source : Anne Reeve Aldrich (1892). “Songs about Life, Love and Death”
#Art Quotes
#Hands Quotes
#Thee Quotes
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“I shall pass Dawn on her way to earth, as I seek for a path through space.”
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Anne Reeve Aldrich
Source : Anne Reeve Aldrich (1892). “Songs about Life, Love and Death”
#Space Quotes
#Dawn Quotes
#Earth Quotes
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“I meant to write a song of battle, for storied deeds of war inspire; I seemed to hear the cannon thunder, I seemed to see the smoke and fire. But oh, the pathos of the ending when brave men conquered in the fight, knelt, kissing yielded blood-stained colors!--my eyes are blurred, I cannot write.”
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Anne Reeve Aldrich
Source : Anne Reeve Aldrich (1893). “Nadine and Other Poems”
#Song Quotes
#War Quotes
#Writing Quotes
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