I was addicted to you like a prayer said in vain, but one that kept me alive.
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"The world kept spinning despite asking her to stop."
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All nations, even those under severe rule, within those repressed spaces are many everyday people who have wonderful, spiritually correct, loving natures to offer humanity, but they are kept from doing so by tyrants and despots that hold high positions of power.
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Money is made to be earn and use not to be kept and worship.
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Great leaders are believers and doers that kept paving and acting on paths the masses are unaware of, amidst denials or delays.
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Skeptical people ask themselves, " Has God abandoned us? " I tell you otherwise, " Have faith in Him and sing Alleluia!
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There are two essential things that are worth more than the riches accumulated with greed and kept in the depth of the soul, which is aware of its obsession by denying its selfishness and vulnerability.
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Masks hide identities and guilt. A mirror cannot reflect what it is kept from seeing.
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Promises are quite the quagmired conundrum; often made but seldom kept. 10.6.2022
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All your life, O Ghalib, you repeated the same mistake:
Your face was dirty, but you kept cleaning the mirror!
—Mirza Ghalib, Urdu couplet translation by Michael R. Burch
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Walk with me now, among the transfixed dead
who kept life’s compact and who thus endure
harsh sentence here—among pink-petaled beds
and manicured green lawns. The sky’s azure,
pale blue once like their eyes, will gleam blood-red
at last when sunset staggers to the door
of each white mausoleum, to inquire—
What use, O things of erstwhile loveliness?
('Completing the Pattern' by Michael R. Burch)
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The greatest secrets . . . are those kept.
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I thought i was a writer until i met those who never wrote a line but kept many books in their hearts to their graves, then this pen grew ears, eyes and voices but i couldn't write still.
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Flowers we gather along life's highway, are friends kept in memoirs floral bouquet.
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What has kept me insane during these pandemic times is the flow of comforting words that didn't let hope crumble and go down in flames.
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Feud is a good vent out, it helps to release clogged up negativity at the same time it clarifies the doubts, wrongly entered data kept repressed and also puts forth our point of view in a very clear way.
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A remembrance, a poem, a song, a flash of yesterday, a "hope" for tomorrow...and especially a prayer from childhood; are all treasures, safely kept in the mind.
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My grandfather fled for his life,
Came ro America qnd took a wife.
Couldn't handle the pressure kept up drama and strife.
So he ran away giving up his name and birth rights
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The tiny lost animals kept low and close together, afraid they would be heard. Ever aware of the farmer's anger over a few eaten beans.
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"Purple is swallowed regal royal and read, the Jade Green shallow ponds of wading tidal pools silently investigated, inquisitive slender fingers turn over smooth rocks and hard shells, eventually surprises - Asteroidea - in the oceans of a distant Turquoise harbour are found and kept; in the pages of dreams, saltwater mirrors fed and treasure boxes opened and plundered." Leanne Lovejoy-Burton
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"Surely, the Reader, is the writer of their own story and we are all kept in cages until our muse is let loose." Leanne Lovejoy-Burton
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Memories...
longed for, missed often, small and tiny, large and mighty, treasures in a box, our heart, to be kept safe and close.
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On old age: if you keep your sense of humor, you have kept your best sense.
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He was like a wall I kept throwing balls at but they would bounce back and hit my own head. Soon I wanted to find- "Who wins- the wall or the skull " !!
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I kept un-layering with a hope to find some emotion and eventually concluded IT was a cabbage!!
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Real valuables are kept in privacy. Whatever is displayed for everyone to see is on sale. Whether is it a beauty or religion, no matter since it is not enough precious for its seller to keep it in secrecy.
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To all of you people who have uttered nuances about me, 'go fuck yourself'. I'm finally going to allow myself to say it, i am better than you, because i worked harder, longer, endured hell and kept my dignity, while remaining generous among all the abuse and jealousy. There is strength growing in me. Perhaps, it's called womanhood. I'm wielding power, so step off me.
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Grace kept me sane , yet the word straightened out the way , so I'm not phased by these mazes life takes me through .
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American Blacks are the best kept slaves in the World.
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"When the day you say that love is in you.
I am no longer there.
Memories only be kept, and it still be as is."
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