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For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.
Truly, this world can go on without us, if we would but think so.
"Do not fear! Heaven is as near," He said, "by water as by land!"
Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing.
Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.
I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where.
Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence
The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.
Invite your friend to dinner; have nothing to do with your enemy.
Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster
Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.
The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God.
Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?
The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.
He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
The darkness crumbles away It is the same old druid Time as ever.
If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.
Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark.
The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.
How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.
Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.
Look: I am nothing. I do not even have ashes to rub into my eyes.
Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.
Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.
We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.
Each one to his own trade; then would the cows be well cared for.
But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.
He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself.
And now, dear Lord, I cannot wait Because I have a luncheon date.
Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
When trouble haunts me, need I sigh?No, rather smile away despair
Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone.
The Psalms foretell what I, what any shall do and suffer and say.
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
It's a hard world, neighbors, if a man's oath must be his master.
How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away!
the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you
And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.
Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds.
Autumn, in his leafless bowers, is waiting for the winter's snow.
I wish to believe in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.
And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets.