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A strange alternative * * *Must women have a doctor or a dance?
Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.
The stillness of October gold Went out like beauty from a face.
One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing.
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
Moon like a large stainedglass window that breaks on the ocean.
The important thing in life is to let the years carry us along.
Those who are afraid of death will carry it on their shoulders.
Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.
I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.
Whose gold is double with a careful hand, His cares are double.
Worry is the cross which we make for ourselves by over anxiety.
Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.
We've practiced loving long enough, let's come at last to hate.
I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.
True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.
Either wealth is much increased, or moderation is much decayed.
If thou thy selfe canst doe it, attend no others helpe or hand.
They favour learning whose actions are worthy of a learned pen.
Too much taking heede is losse. [Too much taking heed is loss.]
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.
They were lovely, your eyes, but you didn't know where to look.
If you have a choice of two things and can't decide, take both.
It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.
A good turn at need,At first or last, shall be assur'd of meed.
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.
Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.
The Sorbonne should be razed and Chris Marker put in its place.
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
Ne speaketh not; and yet there lies a conversation in his eyes.
Difficulty on the way to victory is opportunity for God to work
What shall I say to you? What can I say Better than silence is?
Ah, the souls of those that die Are but sunbeams lifted higher.
All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.
He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.
A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.
The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.
In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.
Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.
There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.
Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]
What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.
While I am sane I shall compare nothing to the joy of a friend.
The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.