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Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?
To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.
We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.
The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.
I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.
For the most part, it's a world of artists that are very in their own heads.
The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.
Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts.
Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.
Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.
I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy
But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred.
If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable
I tried to peg out soldierly,--no use! One dies of war like any old disease.
A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought.
Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.
Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue.
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.
What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.
At once, good night- Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.
'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.
The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess
The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute.
Men judge by the complexion of the sky The state and inclination of the day.
But I will be, A bridegroom in my death, and run into't As to a lover's bed.
You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.
What soilders whey-face? The English for so please you. Take thy face hence.
Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.
Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith.
Upon thy cheek I lay this zealous kiss, as seal to the indenture of my love.
The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible.
My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.
You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valour, but to bear.
Be still prepared for death: and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter.
The day shall not be up so soon as I, To try the fair adventure of tomorrow.
But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.
For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Is this government of Britain's Isle, and this the royalty of Albion's King?
I do know when the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows.
Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.
He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.
Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.