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Be a friend. You don't need glory. Friendship is a simple story.
There's no diet list I'll follow that would rule out cherry pie.
The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.
The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?
Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
Lord I do fear / Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year.
There isn't a train I wouldn't take, no matter where it's going.
The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss.
Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.
We meet ourselves at every turn In the long country of the past.
Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Rien ne se peut comparer a' Paris. Nothing can compare to Paris.
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
Only in time of peace can the wastes of capitalism be tolerated.
Unlike money, hope is all: for the rich as well as for the poor.
Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.
I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.
One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard.
The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.
Oh to be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught
The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror.
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.
Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.
I'll just bleed so the stars can have something dark to shine in
Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.
Like a dart the present glances, Silent stands the past sublime.
Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.
He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.
Better be a foole then a knave. [Better be a fool than a knave.]
In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.
To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
The most effective mirror is definitely an previous good friend.
A building without ornamentation is like a heaven without stars.
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,And therefore let 's be merry.
Teaching poetry, teaching as such, is worthy - if back breaking.
Here bloom red roses, dewy wet, And beds of fragrant mignonette.
Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
There is A madman inside of you Who is always running for office
All your wounds from craving love Exist because of heroic deeds.
Wisdom, Power and Goodness meet In the bounteous field of wheat.
Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are.
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.