A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and I don’t know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star. For there is many a small betrayal in the mind, a shrug that lets the fragile sequence break sending with shouts the horrible errors of childhood storming out to play through the broken dyke. And as elephants parade holding each elephant’s tail, but if one wanders the circus won’t find the park, I call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty to know what occurs but not recognize the fact. And so I appeal to a voice, to something shadowy, a remote important region in all who talk: though we could fool each other, we should consider--- lest the parade of our mutual life get lost in the dark. For it is important that awake people be awake, or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep; the signals we give---yes or no, or maybe--- should be clear: the darkness around us is deep.
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Deceitfully goes forth the dawn,
Not seldom evening in the wes... WILLIAM III WILLIAM OF ORANGE Every bullet has its billet. WILLIAM III WILLIAM OF ORANGE A creature not too bright nor good
For human nature's daily food. WILLIAM III WILLIAM OF ORANGE No check, no stay this streamlet fears:
How merrily it goes!
'Twill murmur on a thousand years... WILLIAM III WILLIAM OF ORANGE Being an icon is overrated, remember an icon can be moved by a mouse WILLIAM SHATNER Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us... WILLIAM NICHOLSON In time we hate that which we often fear. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Time is what we want most,but what we use worst. WILLIAM PENN The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. WILLIAM HAZLITT To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We read to know we're not alone. WILLIAM NICHOLSON Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Up and down, up and down I will lead them up and down I am feared in field in town Go... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell, To die upon the hand I love so well. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE good alone Is good without a name, vileness is so WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Twas a good lady, 'twas a good lady: we may pick a thousand salads ere we light on such another herb... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A young man married is a man that's marred. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All's well that ends well. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Dispute not with her: she is lunatic. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. WILLIAM BLAKE When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on s... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble, His brain is just not in the pink, His mind is rubble,... WILLIAM GOLDMAN Good counselors lack no clients. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the ph... WILLIAM JAMES O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? WILLIAM COWPER