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Where Ignorance Is Bliss  (by: Thomas Gray (1716 - 1771))
To each his sufferings: all are men,
Condemned alike to groan;
The tender for another's pain,
The unfeeling for his own.
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Wild Geese  (by: Mary Oliver)
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
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Wisdom  (by: Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933))
When I have ceased to break my wings
Against the faultiness of things,
And learned that compromises wait...
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Without  (by: Unknown)
Without winter, there can be no spring.
Without mistakes, there can be no learning.
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Work Without Hope  (by: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834))
All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair -
The bees are stirring -birds are on the wing -
And Winter slumbering in the open air...
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Lessons of Life Poems Books

Worth While  (by: Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 - 1919))
It is easy enough to be prudent,
When nothing tempts you to stray,
When without or within no voice of sin
Is luring your soul away...
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Written For My Son-Upon His Master's First........  (by: Mary Barber (1690-1757))
Our master, in a fatal hour,
Brought in this Rod, to shew his pow'r.
O dreadful birch ! O baleful tree !
Thou instrument of tyranny !
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You Better Slow Down  (by: Unknown)
Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round,
or listened to rain slapping the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight,
or gazed at the sun fading into the night?
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You May Forget But  (by: Sappho (c.600 BCE))
You may forget but
let me tell you
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