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Proper deformity shows not in the fiend So horrid as in woman.
Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?
Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.
Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.
When the snake decided to go straight, he didn't get anywhere.
And though circuitous and obscureThe feet of Nemesis how sure!
A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident tomorrows.
The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.
Sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart.
A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven.
Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
Young leaves The sound of a waterfall Heard from far and near.
The spring sea rising and falling, rising and falling all day.
In lantern-light My yellow Chrysanthemums Lost all their color
The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.
Just as you commit to this life when it commits to leaving you.
The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.
Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!
The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.
And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.
And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan.
I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing.
I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.
I didn't know the names of the flowers - now my garden is gone.
Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.
He who has a mind to fight, let him fight, for now is the time.
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.
Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.
The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.
The sense of the preciousness of the body - vehicle for poetry.
I look and look, / As though I could be saved simply by looking
A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer.
Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.
I want a God big enough to love those who don't believe in him.
A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
A person is really dead only when nobody thinks of him anymore.
life is a loaded gun that looks right at you with a yellow eye.