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To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise.
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
Be true, and thou shalt fetter time with everlasting chain.
Sometimes it is necessary To reteach a thing its loveliness
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
Thinking a smile all the time will keep your face youthful.
China is a long caravan, longer and stronger than the Wall.
A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.
To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise.
Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.
Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.
Take heed of a step-mother; the very name of her sufficeth.
The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing.
The charges of building and making of gardens are unknowne.
The ill that comes out of our mouth falles into our bosome.
There would be no great ones, if there were no little ones.
I find having your own car is like a passport to the world.
Silence can pose a greater threat than the difficult truth.
Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.
In the image of the lion made He kittens small and curious.
There, where one burns books... one, in the end, burns men.
There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.
The twilight that surrounds the border-land of old romance.
A sermon is no sermon in which I cannot hear the heartbeat.
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.
Keep adding little by little and it will become a big heap.
The world turns softly / Not to spill its lakes and rivers.
The moon is at her crystal window / Spinning and weaving...
As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
I wrap myself up in virtue. [Lat., Mea virtute me involvo.]
In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.
If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief.
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.
Seize today and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow.
Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.
He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.
What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?
Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.
There is something magnificent in having a country to love.
All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.