Edmund Vance Cooke Quotes

• Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal but the exercise.

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  Exercise, Discipline, Goal

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• Kisses kept are wasted; Love is to be tasted. There are some you love, I know; Be not loathe to tell them so. Lips go dry and eyes grow wet Waiting to be warmly met. Keep them not in waiting yet; Kisses kept are wasted.

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  Eye, Kissing, Love Is

  Edmund Vance Cooke, “Kisses”

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• Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce Or a trouble is what you make it, And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it.

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  Hurt, Facts, Trouble

  Edmund Vance Cooke, “How DID You Die?”

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• Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.

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  Sleep, Fighting, Insomnia

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• You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat But to lie there - that's a disgrace.

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  Lying, Failure, Fall

  Edmund Vance Cooke, “How DID You Die?”

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• Kisses kept are wasted; love is to be tasted.

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  Kissing, Love Is

  Edmund Vance Cooke, “Kisses”

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• I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, and they brought back bodies of living men, But their eyes were cold and dead.

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  Guerra, Ojo, Hombres

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• So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away, But wait, my friend, for a different day; Wait till you want to want to!

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  Waiting, Temptation, Want

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• But maybe prayer is a road to rise, A mountain path leading toward the skies To assist the spirit who truly tries. But it isn't a shibboleth, creed, nor code, It isn't a pack-horse to carry your load, It isn't a wagon, it's only a road. And perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal, but the exercise!

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  Horse, Prayer, Exercise

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• You may batter your way through the thick of the fray, You may sweat, you may swear, you may grunt; You may be a jack-fool, if you must, but this rule Should ever be kept at the front;-- Don't fight with your pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.

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  Fighting, Sweat, Bed

  Edmund Vance Cooke, “Don't Take Your Troubles To Bed”

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