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The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.
There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
With every anguish of our earthly part The spirit's sight grows clearer.
It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.
The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.
I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.
I had TB as a boy. They said my skeletal frame never developed properly.
If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.
Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.
All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay.
I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.
Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury.
When we risk no contradiction, It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction.
Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judged a partner in the trade.
Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.
Through buried paths, where sleepy twilight dreams The summer time away.
Using language like jungle growth isn't the solution to telling a story.
I'm many things, most of 'em bad. But a man of political principles? No.
Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.
It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.
See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing.
Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
Throw a lucky man into water and he'll surface with a fish in his mouth.
Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
Love is timeless.... Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Love that is cleansed by tears will remain eternally pure and beautiful.
Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets
For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?
If winter should say, 'Spring is in my heart,' who would believe winter?
Life's face is never the same though we may look at it for all eternity.
Reputation ... is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime.
I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
Women, ever since there have been women, have had a way of being people.
I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking
We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.
Having a voice unlike another means you've "found yourself" as a writer.
I am willing to make any part of my life public, if it will help others.
Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.
There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain.