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Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

classic quote by Cary Grant
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If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando.

classic quote by Gene Kelly
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A Prayer On Going Into My House

GOD grant a blessing on this tower and cottage
And on my heirs, if all remain unspoiled,
No table or chair or stool not simple enough
For shepherd lads in Galilee; and grant
That I myself for portions of the year
May handle nothing and set eyes on nothing
But what the great and passionate have used
Throughout so many varying centuries
We take it for the norm; yet should I dream
Sinbad the sailor's brought a painted chest,
Or image, from beyond the Loadstone Mountain,
That dream is a norm; and should some limb of the Devil
Destroy the view by cutting down an ash
That shades the road, or setting up a cottage
Planned in a government office, shorten his life,
Manacle his soul upon the Red Sea bottom.

poem by William Butler Yeats
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The Old, Old Song

When all the world is young, lad,
And all the trees are green;
And every goose a swan, lad,
And every lass a queen—
Then hey for boot and horse lad,
And round the world away;
Young blood must have its course, lad,
And every dog his day.

When all the world is old, lad,
And all the trees are brown;
And all the sport is stale, lad,
And all the wheels run down—
Creep home, and take your place there,
The spent and manned among;
God grant you find one face there
You loved when all was young.

poem by Charles Kingsley from The Water Babies, Chapter 2 (1863)
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Pilgrim Song

Written for the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Pennsylvania

Pilgrims of the trackless deep,
Leaving all, our fathers came,
Life and liberty to keep
In Jehovah's awful name.
Neither pillared flame nor cloud
Made the wild, for them, rejoice,
But their hearts, with sorrow bowed,
In the darkness heard His voice.

Things above them they divined—
Thoughts of God, forever true,
And the deathless Compact signed—
Building better than they knew:
Building liberty not planned,
Law that ampler life controls,
All the greatness of our land
Lying shadowed in their souls.

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poem by Florence Earle Coates from Mine and Thine (1904)
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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

quote by Reinhold Niebuhr
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May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.

Homer in The Odyssey
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Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.

quote by Caecilius Statius
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Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.

quote by William Shakespeare
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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

quote by Wystan Hugh Auden
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