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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.
Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.
The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.
Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.
Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted.
The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.
You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.
Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
We have to administer the law whether we like it or no.
The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.
All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.
The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she.
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.
Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist
Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.
This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.
If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!
Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.
About, about, in reel and rout the death fires danced at night.
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.
Ah why refuse the blameless bliss? Can danger lurk within a kiss?
He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.
Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.
For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.
Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.
A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young!