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We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.
If writing is your practice, the only way to fail is not to write.
Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.
Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little.
Full many wanton babes have I, Which must be stilled with lullaby.
Little pitchers have wide eares. [Little pitchers have wide ears.]
Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold.
Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
A blustering night, a faire day. [A blustering night, a fair day.]
A good bargaine is a pick-purse. [A good bargain is a pick-purse.]
He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is courteous.
He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment.
If great men would have care of little ones, both would last long.
The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts not.
Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still.
Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy.
Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
I say that we are wound With mercy round and round As if with air.
If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.
I couldn’t live with myself if I thought nothing could get better.
The night has given me dark eyes But I use them to look for light.
I wish to devote all my time / To noble thoughts about great Love.
I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.
'Tis writ on Paradise's gate, Woe to the dupe that yields to fate!
A mother is a school. Empower her; and you empower a great nation.
We need to hear the sound of our voice for what we think and need.
The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
The gazelles so gentle and clever Skip lightly in frolicsome mood.
To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.
When love is at its best, one loves So much that he cannot forget.
He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels
Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.
Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.
The low desire, the base design That makes another's virtues less.
The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.
The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.
There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe.
Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
Each man had only one genuine vocation to find the way to himself.
I could not accept from wisdom what love taught, woman is perfect.
Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.
Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection.
It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.
While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire.
The soul and eternity of one man depends upon the voice of another
We are all burning in time, but each is consumed at his own speed.