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Sam Baker
- Dec 25, 2021
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Sam Baker
- Dec 22, 2021
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at certain hours
It is good, at certain hours of the day and night, to look closely at the world of objects at rest. Wheels that have crossed long, dusty...
Sam Baker
- Dec 18, 2021
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come to dream
We only come to sleep, we only come to dream, every each spring of the grass, that is how our making is, it is not true, it is not true...
Sam Baker
- Dec 17, 2021
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you ask this
Why were the former days better than these? For it is not from wisdom that you ask this. -Ecclesiastes 7:10
Sam Baker
- Dec 17, 2021
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enriching all of the universe
The soft bonds of love are indifferent to life and death. They hold through time so that yesterday’s love is part of today’s and the...
Sam Baker
- Dec 17, 2021
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Sam Baker
- Dec 16, 2021
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as the night the day
Polonius: This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man....
Sam Baker
- Dec 16, 2021
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in golden suits
Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains. -John Cheever
Sam Baker
- Dec 16, 2021
- 1 min
all that's left
The summer's grass! all that's left of ancient warriors' dreams. -Basho
Sam Baker
- Dec 16, 2021
- 1 min
to them all
…but time and chance happeneth to them all. —Ecclesiastes
Sam Baker
- Dec 16, 2021
- 1 min
standing water
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. —William Blake
Sam Baker
- Dec 16, 2021
- 1 min
at certain moments
At certain moments, a single almost insignificant sorrow may, by association, bring together all the little epics of pain and discomfort,...
Sam Baker
- Dec 14, 2021
- 1 min
the questions now
Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the...
Sam Baker
- Dec 14, 2021
- 1 min
for the candle makers
I have a candle lighted for the candle makers. thanks Ginna for the perspective
Sam Baker
- Dec 14, 2021
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Sam Baker
- Dec 10, 2021
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wing
Fame is a bee. It has a song— It has a sting— Ah, too, it has a wing. —Emily Dickinson
Sam Baker
- Dec 10, 2021
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to number our days
So teach us to number our days that we apply our hearts unto wisdom.- Psalms xc. v. 12.
Sam Baker
- Dec 10, 2021
- 1 min
not a state
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself. -William Blake
Sam Baker
- Dec 10, 2021
- 1 min
switches
If a thing loves, it is infinite. - William Blake
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