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The Progress Of Marriage

Aetatis suae fifty-two,
A rich Divine began to woo
A handsome young imperious girl,
Nearly related to an Earl.
Her parents and her friends consent,
The couple to the temple went.
They first invite the Cyprian Queen,
’Twas answered, she would not be seen;
The Graces next, and all the Muses
Were bid in form, but sent excuses.
Juno attended at the porch,
With farthing candle for a torch,
While Mistress Iris held her train,
The faded bow distilling rain.
Then Hebe came and took her place,
But showed no more than half her face.

What’er these dire forebodings meant,
In mirth the wedding-day was spent;
The wedding-day, you take me right,

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poem by Jonathan Swift
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No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.

quote by David Starr Jordan
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I would never cheapen my relationships by talking about them.

quote by Kristen Stewart
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Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

quote by Greta Garbo
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It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves.

quote by Meir Kahane
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There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.

quote by Greta Garbo
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The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

quote by Adrienne Rich
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By the Time You Discover Reality

Just think...
By the time you discover reality,
There may be some left for you...
To get use to the affects of it!

Enjoy it for what it is.
And not try to sell it like the others.
The ones still doing their best to find a way,
To cheapen life for hollow reward.

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Unthrift

Ah, wasteful woman, she who may
On her sweet self set her own price,
Knowing men cannot choose but pay,
How she has cheapen'd paradise;
How given for nought her priceless gift,
How spoil'd the bread and spill'd the wine,
Which, spent with due, respective thrift,
Had made brutes men, and men divine.

poem by Coventry Patmore
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If You Must Limp Alone Across the Finish Line

If you must limp alone across the finish line,
Do it and be proud.
You have no challengers to win this race.
Goals you've chosen,
No one can deface or cheapen.
Or replace your dreams with their wishes.

You have already won your prize.
By keeping your eyes focused.
And remaining unvictimzed by fear.
You were able to fight it off.
And it did not cost you a thing!
But initiative.

You are to be congratulated.
What you desire,
Is so close.
So near.
So very clear.
Just choose to see it!

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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