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Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful.
The purpose of law is to prevent the strong always having their way.
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.
If he did not succeed, he at least failed in a glorious undertaking.
Temporis ars medicina fere est. Time is generally the best medicine.
Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.
Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his hereditary skies.
That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting.
Hate I shall, if I can; if I can't, I shall love though not willing.
The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts.
The mind alone can not be exiled. [Lat., Mens sola loco non exulat.]
Apertures, passages from one world to another. Man's escape hatches.
With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.
The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us.
I am not especially defined by my sex life, nor complete without it.
He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.
Joy Is for the simple or the great to feel, Neither of which we are.
Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
The eyes are the pioneers that first announce the soft tale of love.
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.
Do not be bewildered by the surfaces: in the depths all becomes law.
I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord.
A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it.
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction.
Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.
'Tis hard preaching a stone into tears, or making a rock to tremble.
Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag, the other to pray.
Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart.
No, when the fight begins within himself, / A man's worth something.
The body sprang At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,-no!
There's some are fou o' love divine; There's some are fou o' brandy.
I think that everyone who took part has always been grateful for it.
I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows
I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate
In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.
Harriet Tubman, woman of earth, whipscarred, a summoning, a shinning
Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.
That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer.
Once fishing was a rabbit's foot-- O wind blow cold, O wind blow hot
The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.