“It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.”
Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) English military and political leader
Words that Cromwell spoke as he was dying and was offered a drink (3 September 1658)
“Rest in my arms
Sleep in my bed
There's a design
To what I did and said”
"Vito's Ordination Song"
Lyrics, Michigan (2003)
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There's a design
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American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist 1975Related quotes
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In a summer meadow.
My girl and I
Sleep arm in arm.”
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XIX, p. 21
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