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  • TheTrick Is to Keep Breathing.

    -Janice Galloway
       Title of first novel.

  •    A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

    -John Keats
      Endymion, bk.1, l.1^5.

  • Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read.One does not love breathing.

    - (Nelle) Harper Lee
      Scout. To Kill  A Mockingbird, pt.1, ch.2.

  • On a poet's lips I slept Dreaming like a love-adept In the sound his breathing kept.

    - Percy Bysshe Shelley
      Prometheus Unbound, act1, l.737^9.

  • 'Courage!' he said, and pointed toward the land, 'This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.' In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seeme'  d always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Ulysses Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.

    -Tennyson
     Poems,'The Lotos^Eaters', l.1^6.

  • Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.

    -Tennyson
      'The Higher Pantheism', l.11^12.

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