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When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you read more
When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?
 E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow
 That innocence can give,
  When its resistless accents flow
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 E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow
 That innocence can give,
  When its resistless accents flow
   To bid affection live. 
 We were as twinned lambs that did frisk i' th' sun,
 And bleat the one at th' other. What read more 
 We were as twinned lambs that did frisk i' th' sun,
 And bleat the one at th' other. What we changed
  Was innocence for innocence; we knew not
   The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dreamed
    That any did. 
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be read more
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
 What can innocence hope for,
 When such as sit her judges are corrupted!  
 What can innocence hope for,
 When such as sit her judges are corrupted! 
The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time
The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time
A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor.
A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor.
 I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.
I am read more 
 I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.
I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me;
All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. 
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down read more
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.