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Art consists in making others feel what we feel.
If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.
My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.
At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
Intense love is often akin to intense suffering.
Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
Where there is much freedom there is much error.
The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.
It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
Time flies on restless pinions - constant never.
For the world is only governed by self-interest.
Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics
The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.
Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?
Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.
An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
Patience, time and money accommodate all things.
With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.
Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
Evils have their comfort, good none can support.
He that's long a giving, knowes not how to give.
Heresie may be easier kept out, then shooke off.
If all fooles had babies, wee should want fuell.
If the husband be not at home, there is nobodie.
Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
Set good against evill. [Set good against evil.]
The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
This world is nothing except it tend to another.
Your pot broken seemes better then my whole one.
Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.
He that gives me small gifts would have me live.
There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved.
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
Anxiety is extremely contagious, but so is calm.
Silence is the essential condition of happiness.
The bird's delirium does not interest the trees.
Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.
What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.
In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.
And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.