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It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now.
Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.
The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.
Literacy is freedom, and everyone has something significant to say.
Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.
I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.
It took me 30 years for people to consider me an overnight success.
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master.
One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.
Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.
I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
There is an awful warmth about my heart like a load of immortality.
A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.
Sun of my soul! Thou Saviour dear, It is not night if Thou be near.
Thou art the Sun of other days. They shine by giving back the rays.
For it ne sits not unto fresh May Forto be coupled to cold January.
Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.
Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.
Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.
Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.
Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow.
Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.
Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.
In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land.
Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.
In the West you have every opportunity for civilization to triumph.
True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.
I never fit in. Everyone knew my dad was Indian. I was half-Indian.
Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.
Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.
The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.
Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart
I place solitude in a frame on my desk and call it, the one I love.
When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation.
Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
Some think I wink at them when I shut my eyes to avoid their sight.
of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.
World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural.
What was difficult was the travel, which, on arrival, is forgotten.
Family traits, like murder, will out. Nature has but so many molds.
I regret not death. I am going to meet my friends in another world.