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How sweet a thing it is to love and to be loved again.
Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside.
Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation.
You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible
No one knows the colour of a flower till it is broken.
Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]
It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
We are dust and shadow. [Lat., Pulvis et umbra sumus.]
Who after wine, talks of wars hardships or of poverty.
The mob will now and then see things in a right light.
All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.
He who has lost his money-belt will go where you wish.
My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.
Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on.
Welcome will arrived, the hour that was not hoped for.
Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.
It was intended to be a vase, it has turned out a pot.
In life it is training rather than birth which counts.
Tea Party members go to meetings on Medicare scooters.
To shelter and to hide, they have resigned themselves.
A bad book owes to many trees | A forest of apologies.
The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
Everyone longs for love's tense joys and red delights.
The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.
It was the East that should have sent us missionaries.
And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.
We only serve as a model for the portrait of our fame.
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
One may receive the information but miss the teaching.
I swallowed a hand grenade that never stops exploding.
Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.
We have reason to be afraid. This is a terrible place.
The public library is the most dangerous place in town
I eat like a pig. Tripe is the only thing I won't eat.
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.
Yesternight the sun went hence, And yet is here today.
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind!
When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!
Thee lift me, and I lift thee, and together we ascend.
The low green tent Whose curtain never outward swings.
Love hath never known a law beyond its own sweet will.
Beneath the winter's snow lie germs of summer flowers.