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General rules have been legislated into being by past masters.
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!
And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She.
But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye.
I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together.
Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant.
To live by a large river is to be kept in the heart of things.
I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.
When the shore is won at last, Who will count the billow past?
Success is the brand on the brow of the man who aimed too low.
Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.
Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony.
Fate shall yield To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.
With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.
Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize.
But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.
When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.
Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.
Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for.
The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
Any dispute in matters of taste usually results in a standoff.
Tyranny will make an entire population into readers of poetry.
A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.
Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)
The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.
A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.
Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
You meet a friend - your face brightens. You have struck gold.
Poets and monks... We're both sort of peripheral to the world.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?
The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.
He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.
And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.
It was in my heart to help a little because I was helped much.
The shepherd will deny the diseased lamb in fear of the flock.
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Experience teaches, it is true; but she never teaches in time.
Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.
A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.
Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.
If the world 's a vale of tears, Smile, till rainbows span it!
I'm interested in the eternal soul. That's what I write about.