Emily Dickinson wrote, "One need not be a chamber to be haunted; one need not be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material place."
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"There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man." Polybius
"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical." Blaise Pascal
"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruit than strict justice." Abraham Lincoln
Kingman Brewster Jr. said, "There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness."
William Shakespeare wrote, "These violent delights have violent ends."
Journalist William D. Tammeus wrote, "You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around and why his parents will always wave back."
"And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee." Matthew 5:29
"Dwell in peace in the home of your own being and the messenger of death will not be able to touch you." Guru Nanak
"In all the darkest pages of the malign supernatural, there is no more terrible tradition than that of the vampire, a pariah even among demons." Writer Montague Summers
Writer Cyril Connolly said, "Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self."
"Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it's an enemy." Albert Einstein
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
Poet Haniel Long said, "So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty."
W. S. Gilbert wrote, "It's love that makes the world go round." And if that's true, then the world spun a little faster with Haley in it. Haley was my best friend since we were in high school. We certainly had our struggles, but if there's one thing we agreed on unconditionally, it was our love and commitment to our son Jack. Haley's love for Jack was joyous and fierce. That fierceness is why she isn't here today. A mother's love is an unrivaled force of nature. And we can all learn much from the way Haley lived her life. Haley's death causes each of us to stop and take stock of our lives; to measure who we are and what we've become. I don't have all those answers for myself, but I know who Haley was. She was the woman who died protecting the child we brought into this world together. And I will make sure that Jack grows up knowing who his mother was and how she loved and protected him and how much I loved her. If Haley were with us today, she would ask us not to mourn her death but to celebrate her life. She would tell us... She would tell us to love our families unconditionally and to hold them close, because in the end, they are all that matter. I met Haley at the tryouts of our high school's production of The Pirates of Penzance. I found our copy of the play and I was looking through it the other night, and I came upon a passage that seemed appropriate for this moment: "Oh, dry the glistening tear that dews that martial cheek. Thy loving children hear, in them thy comfort seek. With sympathetic care their arms around thee creep, for, oh, they cannot bear to see their father weep."
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