We are all ruled in what we ...

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
 Edna St. Vincent Millay

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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
 Edna St. Vincent Millay
I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient Mariner, who had a tale in his heart he must unfold to all. I am always buttonholing somebody and saying, "Someday you must meet my mother.
 Edna St. Vincent Millay
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
 Edna St. Vincent Millay
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
 Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Englishman foxtrots as he fox-hunts, with all his being, through thickets, through ditches, over hedges, through chiffons, through waiters, over saxophones, to the victorious finish; and who goes home depends on how many the ambulance will accommodate.
 Edna St. Vincent Millay