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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
Estou farto do lirismo comedido Do lirismo bem comportado Do lirismo funciona rio p u blico com livro de ponto expediente protocolo e manifesta c° o es de apre c° o ao Sr Diretor. Estou farto do lirismo que pa ra e vai averiguar no diciona rio o cunho verna culo de um voca bulo. Abaixo os puristas I'm sick of cautious lyricism of well-behaved lyricism of a civil servant lyricism complete with time card office hours set procedures and expressions of esteem for Mr Boss, Sir. I'm sick of the lyricism that has to stop in midstream to look up the precise meaning of a word. Down with purists!
Why art thou cast down,O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
He that is down needs fear no fall, He that is low no pride. He that is humble ever shall Have God to be his guide.
It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down. It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses. It isnotthestreetsthatexist.It isthestreetsthat no longer exist. It is not your memories which haunt you. It is not what you have written down. It is what you have forgotten, what you must forget. What you must go on forgetting all your life.
I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
A foggy day in LondonTown Had me low and had me down.
A great partyought nottobe brought down because of a squalid affair between a woman of easy virtue and a proved liar.
Your levellerswishto leveldownas farasthemselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
Everybody wants you to pick it up, and nobody wants you to put it down.
The question that isso clearly in many potential parents' minds: 'Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?'
Down she came and found a boat Beneath a willow left afloat, And round about the prow she wrote The Lady of Shalott.
That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out but they never let you down.
I started at the top and worked down.
I play with the fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.
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