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Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.
Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!
Silence can be defined as conversation with an Englishman
Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue.
An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away.
Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence.
The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.
We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us.
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.
Dead men would start and move toward me to learn of love.
O do not weep, she says, for ages past I was and I endure
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.
The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.
He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
We are forgiven, that we may be like Him who forgives us.
It is easier to speak about revival than to set about it.
I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.
I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.
History is the story of warfare between secret societies.
As a writer, you explore all kinds of different emotions.
In hell it is difficult to tell people from other people.
I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.
It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.
I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please?
That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong."
In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything
In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.
There are openings in our lives of which we know nothing.
Wrong solitude vinegars the soul, right solitude oils it.
The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.
Poetry is philosophy's sister, the one that wears makeup.
She neglects her heart who too closely studies her glass.
I'm John Clare now. I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.
And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.
Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.
A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much
Order is the primary regulation of the celestial regions.
Every man has a right to change, a chance of forgiveness.
Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half
My heart contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.