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He who fox-like got his rank, Is wolf-like in his office.
A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.
I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.
Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.
Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.
Nunc scio quit sit amor." Lat., "Now I know what love is.
The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.
The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions.
Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
Does God judge us by appearances? I Suspect that He does.
You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.
Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.
On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree
That's a great gift to be given, that feeling of no fear.
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.
The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
O America! Because you build for mankind I build for you.
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Pluck not the wayside flower; It is the traveler's dower.
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.
Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share?
Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.
Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age.
Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.
Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne.
What shall I do for pretty girls Now my old bawd is dead?
I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.
The gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds.
Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly.
Timor mortis conturbat me. The fear of death disturbs me.
Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
Good God, the souls of all my tribe defend From jealousy!
Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.
He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read.
Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.