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Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! O what a foretaste of glory divine! Heir of salvation, purchase of God. Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.
Fanny Crosby
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Darling, I am growing old,
Silver threads among the gold Shine upon my brow today;
Life is fading fast away.
Eben E. Rexford
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At the age of ninety-three, when asked at what age the sex drive goes:
You'll have to ask somebody older than me.
Eubie Blake
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Welcome to the Theatre,
To the magic, to the fun!
Where painted trees and flowers grow,
And laughter rings fortissimo,
And treachery's sweetly done.
Lee Adams
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Does your chewing-gum lose its flavour on the bedpost overnight?
Billy Rose
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Writing song lyrics was my deliverance from deprivation…I sometimes think that all the lyrics I wrote about the moon and stars expressed a longing for what I couldn't see back then.
Mitchell Parish
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We're in the money,
We're in the money,
We've got a lot of what it takes to get along!
Al Dubin
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Sometimes I'm happy
sometimes I'm blue
my disposition
depends on you.
Irving Caesar
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I am what I am
I am my own special creation
So come take a look
Give me the hook or the ovation
It's my world that I want to have a little pride in
My world and it's not a place I have to hide in
Life's not worth a damn till you can say
Hey world I am what I am.
Jerry Herman
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I tic, tic, tic and my heart beats quick How can anything go wrong? When I'm listening to that Geiger counter song I tic, tic all day long
Ralph Blane
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All the sad young men,
Drifting through the town,
Drinking up the night,
Trying not to drown.
Fran Landesman
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How the world can change, It can change like that, Due to one little word: "Married.
Fred Ebb
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If you can't say something nice…don't say nothing at all.
Larry Morey
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I could while away the hours
Conversin' with the flowers,
Consultin' with the rain;
With the thoughts I'd be thinkin'
I could be another Lincoln
If I only had a brain...
Yip Harburg
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I now derive physical and spiritual pleasure from gardening and there is tremendous satisfaction in knowing that I could survive almost anywhere if I had to.
Don Henley
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Keep the Home-fires burning,
While your hearts are yearning,
Though your lads are far away
They dream of Home.
There's a silver lining
Through the dark cloud shining;
Turn the dark cloud inside out,
Till the boys come Home.
Lena Guilbert Ford
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To dream the impossible dream,
To reach the unreachable star!
Joe Darion
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A weekend in the country—
Trees in the orchard call.
When you've examined one tree,
Then you've examined them all.
Ira Gershwin
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Oh, I was only twenty four hours from Tulsa,
Ah, only one day away from your arms;
I hate to do this to you but I love somebody new, what can I do?
And I can never, never, never … go home again.
Hal David
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Every time it rains, it rains
Pennies from heaven.
Don't you know each cloud contains
Pennies from heaven?
Johnny Burke
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I'm looking over a four-leaf clover That I overlooked before.
Mort Dixon
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Take him, I won't put a price on him
Take him, he's yours
Take him, pyjamas look nice on him
But how he snores!
Lorenz Hart
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It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.
Stephen Sondheim
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I guess I'll have to change my plan I should have realized there'd be another man Why did I buy those blue pyjamas Before the big affair began? I guess I'll have to change my plan.
Howard Dietz
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He's making a list And checking it twice,
Gonna find out Who's naughty and nice,
Santa Claus is comin' to town.
Haven Gillespie
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