Shannon
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“If you want a child to know the truth, tell him the truth. If you want a child to love the truth, tell him a story.”
― The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids
― The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids
“Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws?
She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.
She is tender where they would be hard, and hard where they like to be soft.
She tells them of Evil and Sin, and other unpleasant facts.
They constantly try to escape
From the darkness outside and within
By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.
But the man that is will shadow
The man that pretends to be.”
― The Complete Poems and Plays
She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.
She is tender where they would be hard, and hard where they like to be soft.
She tells them of Evil and Sin, and other unpleasant facts.
They constantly try to escape
From the darkness outside and within
By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.
But the man that is will shadow
The man that pretends to be.”
― The Complete Poems and Plays
“Love conquers all. Let Love then smile at our defeat.”
― The Eclogues
― The Eclogues
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