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A poore widow, some deal stape in age,
Was whilom dwelling in a narrow cottage,
Beside a grove, standing in a dale.
Geoffrey Chaucer
widows
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And then having ended this merry wedding,
The bride looked as fresh as a queen; ...
unknown author
weddings
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A doctor is fascinated by death, and pain. And how much pain a man can endure.
David Boehm
pain | torture
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And this mighty master of the organ of language, who knew its every stop and pipe, who could awaken at will the thin silver tones ...
Willa Cather
Poe, Edgar Allan
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Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.
Grover Cleveland
dreams | dreaming
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A wet sheet and a flowing sea,
A wind that follows fast ...
Allan Cunningham
boats
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It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
Elizabeth I
compassion | values of women | women's nature
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Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
Allan Massie
Army
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Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
Edgar Allan Poe
dreams | dreaming | reality | realism
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All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
dreams | dreaming
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