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The tears I feel today I'll wait to shed tomorrow. Though I'll not sleep this night Nor find surcease from sorrow. My eyes must keep their sight: I dare not be tear-blinded. I must be free to talk Not choked with grief, clear-minded. My mouth cannot betray The anguish that I know. Yes, I'll keep my tears til later: But my grief will never go.
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Who wills, Can.
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To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day.
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tears
release
relief
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A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
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science
humor
inspirational
giving-up
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Step by step Moment by moment We live through Another day
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The little queen all golden Flew hissing at the sea. To stop each wave Her clutch to save She ventured bravely. As she attacked the sea in rage A holderman came nigh Along the sand Fishnet in hand And saw the queen midsky. He stared at her in wonder For often he'd been told That such as she Could never be Who hovered there, bright gold. He saw her plight and quickly He looked up the cliff he faced And saw a cave Above the wave In which her ..
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Don't leave me alone! A cry in the night, Of anguish heart-stiking, Of soul-killing fright. Live for my living Or else I must die Don't leave me alone. A world heard that cry.
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Oh, Tongue, give sound to joy and sing Of hope and promise on dragonwing
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Anne McCaffrey |
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There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limitations, yes, but don't limit yourself with false modesty.
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limitations
belief
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Necessity breeds solution.
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My nightly craft is winged in white, a dragon of night dark sea. Swift born, dream bound and rudderless, her captain and crew are me. We've sailed a hundred sleeping tides where no seaman's ever been And only my white-winged craft and I know the wonders we have seen.
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dreams
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Drummer, beat, and piper, blow Harper, strike, and soldier, go Free the flame and sear the grasses Til the dawning Red Star passes
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Dragon kind was no less cruel than mankind. The Dragon, at least, acted from bestial need rather than bestial greed." ~ A thought by Lessa ~"
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greed
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Harper, your song has a sorrowful sound, Though the tune was written as gay. Your voice is sad and your hands are slow And your eye meeting mine turns away.
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Maybes never are.
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When bad fortune occurs, the unresourceful, unimaginative man looks about him to attach the blame to someone else; the resolute accepts misfortune and endeavors to survive, mature, and improve because of it.
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Fight only in direst need Not for lust or petty greed Honor those that do give birth Respect them well for their full worth
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respect
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He is crooked enough to hide behind a spiral staircase.
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Anne McCaffrey & Margaret Ball |
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Exchange information, learn to speak sensibly about any subject, learn to express your thoughts, accept new ones, examine them, analyze. Think objectively. Think toward the future.
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Anne McCaffrey |
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Old family motto: "The best revenge is revenge."
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Anne McCaffrey |
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My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly; the rest is subject to change without notice.
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Anne McCaffrey |
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Harper, treat your words with care For they may cause joy or despair Sing your songs of health and love Of dragons flaming from above
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Anne McCaffrey |
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Harper to your word be true Holder, crafter you also hew To honesty, integrity, and respect All others without regard to intellect
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word
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Anne McCaffrey |
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Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them.
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Anne McCaffrey |
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Rider to your mate be true Follow heart in deed and do All the best your strength can find So you will rest in heart and mind
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Anne McCaffrey |
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Fire-lizard dance on wing To the raucous song I sing. Fire-lizrad wheel and turn, Show me how the dragons learn.
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Anne McCaffrey |
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Look around you, Lessa of Pern, look around the Weyr with unveiled eyes. Old and hallowed is the Weyr? Yes, but shabby and worn - and disregarded. Yes, you were elated to sit in the Weyrwoman's great chair at the Council Table, but the padding is thin and the fabric dusty. Humbled to think your hands rest where Moreta's and Torene's had rested? Well, the stone is ingrained with dirt and needs a good scrubbing. And your rump may rest where t..
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There wasn't a man alive in Pern who hadn't secretly cherished the notion that he might be able to Impress a dragon. That he could be linked for life to the love and sustaining admiration of these gentle great beasts. That he could transverse Pern in a twinkling, astride his dragon. That he would never suffer the loneliness that was the condition of most men - a dragonrider always had his dragon.
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Anne McCaffrey |
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There's nothing wrong in doubting. It sometimes leads to greater faith.
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Anne McCaffrey |
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Meli, are you sure these "humans" are on our side?) (No ... but at least they are not Khieevi.) (That is beginning to seem less and less of a recommendation. Like us in form, perhaps, but hardly in ethics.) (That may not be entirely a bad thing. If they meet their friends with weapons in both hands, what do you suppose they do to their enemies?)"
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Anne McCaffrey |
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It is time to end a story that began in sorrow and ordeal and has ended in a deep and lasting happiness. May it be so for others.
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sorrow
happiness
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You idiot! You misbegotten son of a jinn's meeting with a jackass, may the grave of your maternal grandmother be defiled by the dung of ten thousand syphilitic she-camels!
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Scuse me, lady, but I'm Wisp, 'cause that's all I am, a wisp of a thing, not much good for changing a thing in the world," said the boy for when he stepped inside, the light from the grimy window gave her a good view of his anxious, pointed little face."
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Anne McCaffrey |
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Living was struggling to do something impossible - to succeed, or die, knowing you had tried!
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Anne McCaffrey |
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A man didn't specialize in mathematics because he had a rare talent for human relationships.
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Anne McCaffrey |
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Some folk, too, believe what the loudest talker says. And some folk because it frightens them not to.
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Anne McCaffrey |
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And so we must arm ourselves with tongues of flame.
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Anne McCaffrey |
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True portraits are never realistic
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Anne McCaffrey |
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To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven,
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Anne McCaffrey |
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Die happy-I will," F'nor cried, cutting more fruit."
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Anne McCaffrey |
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A man ought not be afraid to say he didn't know. Nor a woman.
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Anne McCaffrey |
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It must be an amazing mind-set, Afra thought, to consider one's self the only being of worth in the galaxy. There had been Humans who had had such delusions. They had generally died because of them
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Anne McCaffrey |
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If Man was the highest achievement of Nature's grand design, then Nature had a sense of humor. Whereas
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Anne McCaffrey |
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Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.
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