~Poems, Quotes, & Sayings 5~

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"Only in my dreams can I be with you,
In my heart and soul my love is true,
fate was not kind to me,
for being blind was I meant to be,
to the beauty that I could not find
until at last I could see
but alass, gone was she."

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"Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him,
neither out of his feet to be trampled by him,
but out of his side to be equal with him,
under his arm to be protected by him,
and near his heart to be loved by him."

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"Have I told you about the tension of opposites?" he says.
The tension of opposites?
"Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.
A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle."
So which side wins, I asked?
"Which side wins?"
He smiles at me, the crinkled eyes, the crooked teeth.
"Love wins. Love always wins."

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"I have not the beauty of perfection
...the strength of wisdom
the wide view of knowledge
the clear eye of faith

I have only the small whisper
...of Hope"

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"Only in dreams, you see what it means, to reach out our hands, hold on to hers, but when you wake, it's all been erased, and so it seems, only in dreams"

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"I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting. I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals-true equals- only when they both have equal confidence."

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