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All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.
On no other ground Can I sow my seed Without tearing up Some stinking weed.
Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.
He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out.
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
What is it but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?
Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!
Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.
I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
It is great sin to swear unto a sin, But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.
The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.
But fish not with this melancholy bait For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.
Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others.
Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.
Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.
I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
Why should we rise because 'tis light? Did we lie down because t'was night?
Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things. [Act 5, Scene 2]
Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.
They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.
Love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.
And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!
Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won.
By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.
The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart-see, they bark at me.
I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.
Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way.
If she lives till doomsday, she'll burn a week longer than the whole world.
Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience.
Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.
The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.
Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold.
Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.
But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine.
Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind--But how could I forget thee?
But hushed be every thought that springs From out the bitterness of things.