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Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.
I will despair, and be at enmity With cozening hope.
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.
Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.
There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples.
The appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony.
It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
For man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.
We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still.
So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time
Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse.
Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.
Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.
As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.
Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil.
They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.
I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope.
The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task.
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold.
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.
The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm.
I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott.
There is no safety-net to protect against attraction.
It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
Love isn't always magic. Sometimes it's just melting.
But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
The hand will often reveal more than the countenance.
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
I'm the crazy one who thinks that words reach people.
Evil is maybe lying to God. Or better, lying to love.
Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.
A hobbyhorse can be a tiring ride for nonenthusiasts.
Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.
I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.
He who does not know how to believe, should not know.
A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit.
Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters.
Do not adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it.
Give a boy a dog and you've furnished him a playmate.
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.