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To: HG who wrote (5425)2/18/2000 6:18:00 PM
From: HG  Respond to of 13018
 
To take things personally you have to do two things...

First, you have to interpret another persons words and actions as being intented to hurt you.

Second, you have to grant that person the right to hurt you.

- Dorothy Rowe (Breaking the Bonds)



To: HG who wrote (5425)2/18/2000 10:42:00 PM
From: James Lough  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 13018
 
Haven't thought of that for years -----If my memory is still in tact I think that is a verse from Invictus. Would love to see the rest of it. Scratching my head trying to remember the last verse. Something like " I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul" but don't think that is correct

Jim



To: HG who wrote (5425)2/18/2000 10:54:00 PM
From: mr.mark  Respond to of 13018
 
insanity is smashing up against my soul
you can say i was on anything but a roll
if i had a conscience, man i just might blow my top
what would i do with it anyway
maybe take it to the pawn shop

- bob dylan



To: HG who wrote (5425)2/19/2000 6:55:00 AM
From: nihil  Respond to of 13018
 
Hello HG. I dedicate this post with great respect to John McCain -- nihil

William Ernest Henley. 1849?1903

Invictus (Hanoi Hilton)

OUT of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.


In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.


Untermeyer, Louis, ed. 1920. Modern British Poetry