Laurence Hope

“For this is wisdom- to love and liveTo take what fate or the Gods may give,To ask no question, to make no prayer,To kiss the lips and caress the hair,Speed passion's ebb as we greet its flow,To have and to hold, and, in time--let go.”

“For this is Wisdom; to love, to liveTo take what fate, or the Gods may give.To ask no question, to make no prayer,To kiss the lips and caress the hair,Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flowTo have, -to hold -and -in time, -let go!”

“Men should be judged, not by their tint of skin,the Gods they serve, the Vintage they drink,nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin,But by the quality of the thought they think.”