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It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.
Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.
There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.
Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.
Gladly take the gifts of the present hour and abandon serious things!
I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.
Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand.
The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat
When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?
Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
May you have happiness, and may you find it making one another happy.
One day with life and heart Is more than time enough to find a world.
To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.
And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.
On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
The moonlight builds its cold chapel again out of piecemeal darkness.
Near even a candle, the visible heat. So it is with a person in love.
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.
Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.
Books should have a purpose. Books should be practical in some sense.
The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things.
Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin.
He who seeks to imbitter innocent pleasure has a cancer in his heart.
Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.
The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.
The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through.
It's miserable wearing black all the time, unless you're Johnny Cash.
I had a million jobs before I managed to make a living out of poetry.
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
An ugly woman in a rich habit set out with jewels nothing can become.
Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,- Sweet is pleasure after pain.
So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade.
Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within.
Be secret and discreet; the fairy favors are lost when not concealed.
And when a lady's in the case, You know, all other things give place.
Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on quiet shores.
I am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!
If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish
The trivial round, the common task,Would furnish all we ought to ask.
Heaven to me's a fair blue stretch of sky, Earth's jest a dusty road.
Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.
The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.