3,000 Famous Last Words!

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Wednesday, August 3, 2005

...but my words like silent raindrops fell.................................

I helped a field hand make a run for freedom When my fifteenth year was rolling round And the guard he caught him in a little store In a little slavery village town The boss made a grab to catch the field hand I jumped in and blocked the door The boss he hit me with a two pound scale iron And I went... Sign in to see full entry.

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"Fools," said I, "you do not know, silence like a cancer grows.............

I was five years old in Bucktown Maryland When into slavery I was sent I'll tell you of the beatings and of the fighting In my ninety-three years I've spent Woody Guthrie, The Ballad of Harriet Tubman Sign in to see full entry.

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And the paper they were signing said they'd never fight again..............

" Heaven has no rage like love to hate turned; nor hell a fury like a woman scorned." William Cosgrove (1650 -- 1729) Sign in to see full entry.

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...guns and swords and uniforms were scattered on the ground..............

" Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven." William Wordsworth Sign in to see full entry.

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I dreamed the world had all agreed to put an end to war. ..................

" I cannot and will not give any undertaking, at a time when I, and you, the people, are not free. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated." Nelson Mandela Sign in to see full entry.

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Take the tme to treat your friends and neighbors honestly..................

"There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere." Stanley Baldwin, First Earl of Bewdley (1867 - 1847) British Conservative Prime Minister Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, August 2, 2005

Is there any danger? No, no not really, just lean on me...................

" A friend may well be reckoned a masterpiece of nature." Ralph Waldo Emerson Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, August 1, 2005

Let peace begin with me -- Let this be the moment now....................

"Let us have peace." US Grant Sign in to see full entry.

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Brothers all are we; let me walk with my brother in perfect harmony!......

" And the suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the lord, as the waters cover the sea." Isaiah Sign in to see full entry.

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Let this be my solemn vow:to take each moment and live each moment in peace

" And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox..." Isaiah Sign in to see full entry.

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This blog will replace my 1,000 More Satisfying Interjections! blog. I lost that book. With this one, if I can't find a good quotation for the day, I'll make one up.

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