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You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.
I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.
A room to myself is a luxury that I do not always enjoy.
A great deal of living must go to a very little writing.
The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it.
I don't believe in tame poetry. . . . Poetry busts guts.
Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have loved.
The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.
Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
It's much easier to do and die than it is to reason why.
It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell.
Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes.
God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
Hee that is in a Taverne thinkes he is in a vine-garden.
If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.
Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.
Who hath a Wolfe for his mate, needes a Dog for his man.
Who hath no more bread then neede, must not keepe a dog.
Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.
Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.
You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them.
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.
Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.
Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies.
Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.
Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses.
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.
It is no madness to say you will fall, you great cities.
Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.
It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.
Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.
A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.
It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way.
Not worth is an example that does not solve the problem.
It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
Now drown care in wine. [Lat., Nunc vino pellite curas.]
A cup concealed in the dress is rarely honestly carried.
Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
Men take their misfortunes to heart and keep them there.