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Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.
And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea.
Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
I like to give a voice to others, especially things neglected or despised.
Love is a fragile, useless thing. It decomposes easily in the tropic heat.
Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.
I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.
Borrow neither money nor time from your neighbor; both are of equal value.
Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.
No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.
Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.
The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.
I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.
Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.
There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.
Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love, or life.
Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, / The bridal of the earth and sky.
He that seekes trouble never misses. [He that seeks trouble never misses.]
The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity.
Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned.
The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.
The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.
More people laugh at us than with us, however it may appear at the moment.
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love.
Men ask the way to Cold Mountain, Cold Mountain: there's no through trail.
Man must move to things, to non-human matter- There is nowhere else to go.
The poor South. Already guilty of slavery, it became guilty of cigarettes.
Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn’t work, throw it away.
I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart
Listen my children and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere
I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.
A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.
Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.
My eye-balls are glass, my limbs marble, my face fixed in its marble mask.
It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience.
With equal pace, impartial Fate Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate.
The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.
What with your friend you nobly share, At least you rescue from your heir.
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.
Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
Out of His fulness we receive, and grace for grace, — like wave upon wave.