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Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone.
Khalil Gibran
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, and a silver shoe.
English Proverb
I take thee to my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part.
A threefold cord is not quickly broken.
The year's at the spring, and day's at the morn; morning's at seven; the hill-side's dew-pearled; the lark's on the wing; the snail's on the thorn; God's in His heaven. All's right with the world!
Robert Browning
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot
I see the secret of the making of the best persons, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the universe.
Walt Whitman
There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
Virginia Woolf
Nothing in the world is single; all things by a law divine in one spirit meet and mingle.
Percy Bysshe Shelley