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Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry
Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.
Death does frame a person and somehow it is the good that stays.
A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her.
'Chewing Gum' ages me 15 years every time I do it - it's insane.
Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.
We mothers rock into the heart of the world the melody of peace.
Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes!
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]
That, which has not its alternation of rest, will not last long.
Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.
Safety lies in the middle course. [Lat., Medio tutissimus ibis.]
The fire first has to be laid before the match can be put to it.
much of gardening is a struggle against the fecundity of Nature.
The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosophers Stone.
Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish.
Worse than despair, Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.
A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.
Thou art a woman, And that is saying the best and worst of thee.
What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said.
It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.
Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the living heart.
Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.
I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.
in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
What we do battle with is so small, what battles us is so large.
Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.
But on and up, where Nature's heart Beats strong amid the hills.
Okay, so I’m the dragon. Big deal. You still get to be the hero.
I'm a night person. My best times are midnight to six, actually.
I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness.
I live in hope and that I think do all Who come into this world.
Twere too absurd to slight For the hereafter the todays delight!
Day! Faster and more fast. O'er night's brim, day boils at last.
What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union.
The lightly-jumping, glowrin' trouts, That thro' my waters play.
Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!
I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.
I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.