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it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance
Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth.
The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.
Trust not your daughter's minds By what you see them act.
The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.
I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul.
Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!
Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything.
Faster than spring-time showers comes thought on thought.
You shall more command with years than with your weapons.
Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.
Even through the hollow eyes of death I spy life peering.
Honor's thought Reigns solely in the breast of every man.
O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!
The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo
I am sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark.
Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate.
War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife.
Mercutio: "If love be rough with you, be rough with love.
Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company.
Best they honor thee Who honor in thee only what is best.
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.
One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave.
Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
The search for religion is the starting point of thought.
Grasses are misty, The waters silent- A tranquil evening.
No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.
Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
... this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.
I pray and wait for an answer in pictures, words or ideas.
A message from a flower: "Do not pick me. I want to live".
Art is a hidden doorway that can change people's emotions.
The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.
It's no good trying to teach people who need to be taught.
Oh, how superior is the Eye of Horus to the Mouth of Isis!
For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.
Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower.
The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.
The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed.