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Why wait for Death to mow? why wait for Death to sow us in the ground?
Love that I bear within my breast how is my armour melted how my heart
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.
Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.
The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.
I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.
The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
No word is capable of carrying the impulses one wants to send with it.
Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken.
And of the fact that every vision of the past is a vision of the blind
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.
I don't have a cell phone (though for years I've kept saying, "soon").
There was something missing In my foundation Why blame the poor walls?
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it.
That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known.
It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed.
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy.
I am often asked why I write, and I don't know really--I just want to.
Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.
Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is.
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe.
Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
In beauty faults conspicuous grow; The smallest speck is seen on snow.
Waking or sleeping, I see a wreck, And hear a cry from a reeling deck!
We all have problems, and we must solve them together or we die alone.
Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.
Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.
Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.
Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathèd Smiles.
And to thy husband's will Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule.
My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.
But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.
My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard.
This is the blood's wild tree that grows the intricate and folded rose
Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations.
No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.
There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.
Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.
For millions of years you have slept. This morning, will you not wake?