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What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.
A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.
Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.
Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children.
Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now.
And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin
In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away.
Tonight I feel the stars are out to use me for target practice.
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.
The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.
We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it.
An illusion can never go faster than the speed limit of reality.
The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
Music does not express any idea, but it gives rise to thousands.
A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
He is dead already who doth not feel Life is worth living still.
My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
A simple maiden in her flower, Is worth a hundred coats of arms.
So dear a life your arms enfold, Whose crying is a cry for gold.
I know transplanted human worth will bloom to profit otherwhere.
The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice.
With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.
Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!
There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.
Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist.
I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.
To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.
Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.
How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!
Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
If you ever reach enlightenment. will you remember how to laugh?
Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life.
Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.
Even so, I must admire your skill. You are so gracefully insane.
Is any prophet come to teach a new thing Now in a more apt time?
Any technology is just a skillful means and it's how you use it.
Traveler, there is no path, the path must be forged as you walk.
The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.
He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.
He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong.