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It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.
Self-respect governs morality: respect for others governs our behavior.
From my mother, a rock, / I have learned that rocks give / most of all.
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune. [Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.]
True hope is based on energy of character. A strong mind always hopes!!
My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.
It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.
Gut it is will move us from the gutter .. . to the rebirth of real men.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.
It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body
Tell your secret to the wind, but don't blame it for telling the trees.
All that we are and all that we've ever felt, words have felt it first.
I want to walk like I’m the only woman on earth and I can have my pick.
When you leave, weary of me, without a word, I shall gently let you go.
Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
... whatever is not happening now is unimportant; it is merely curious.
The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
It is curious how inseparable eating and kindness are with some people.
I don’t know if you or I exist, but somewhere there are poems about us.
A man's whole life / may be a metaphor - but a woman's lot / is symbol.
It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.
What hymns are sung. What praises said. For homemade miracles of bread?
I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea.
Why seek the Deity further? Whatever we see is God, and wherever we go.
I believe in the fatal hairdo just for the love of saying fatal hairdo.
I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.
How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.
Disease has always been a much bigger killer of human beings than wars.
Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.
I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.
Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded.
One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment.
Repetition is not failure. Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind.
Joy in what we do is not an added feature; it is a sign of deep health.
Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.
With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.
Why so scrawny, cat? Starving for fat fish or mice... Or backyard love?
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born.
To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.
Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.