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I HAVE met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses. I have passed with a nod of the head Or polite meaningless words, Or have lingered awhile and said Polite meaningless words, …

Easter, 1916 • Opuss № I

Never apologise for who you are, unless you're an arsehole, then apologise all day long.

Wisdom • Opuss № I

"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing." Oscar Wilde Maybe more pertinent today than in Wilde's.

Wisdom • Opuss № I

"Only the dead have seen the end of war." Plato

War • Opuss № I

Given recent events in Algeria, the deteriorating situation in Mali and Syria this exert from a Martin Luther King speech is more poignant than ever. The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very …

Violence • Opuss № I

Thought I'd add a quote about friendship for my first post. Seemed apt and sums up my thoughts on friends succinctly. “Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, th…

Friends • Opuss № I