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[Suggesting an epitaph for herself:] This is on me.
These are but dreaming men. Breathe, and they fade.
Unlove's the heavenless hell and the homeless home.
Where justice grows, there grows eke greater grace.
Change still doth reign, and keep the greater sway.
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.
The heart can only be broken / once, like a window.
Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.
He was a poet -oh all men are when they're in love.
Don't just count your years, make your years count.
I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.
Do nothing by halves which can be done by quarters.
We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.
You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
For who expects nothing, all that comes is grateful
There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.
Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star.
Live with your century; but do not be its creature.
Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.
Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing.
Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.
Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe
To work on behalf of the wild is to restore culture
Poetry has a small audience, but a large influence.
Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.
To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.
Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea.
All are presumed good till they are found at fault.
Dry bread at home is better then rost meate abroad.
Hee that blowes in the dust fills his eyes with it.
Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married.
I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.
If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.
Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.
Pardon all but thy selfe. [Pardon all but thyself.]
Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.
When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.
Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
The chicken is the country's, but the city eats it.
The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
Old wisdom out of the cluster of gathering shadows.
A nobleness to try for, A name to live and die for.
Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished.
It kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.
Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.
The Earth would die If the sun stopped kissing her.
Better the devil you know than the angel you don't.
All poetic inspiration is but dream interpretation.
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies.