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So many creeds like the weeds in the sod - so many temples, and only one God.
Its hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my fathers equal in any way.
The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.
Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.
Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
I had rather aske of my sire browne bread, then borrow of my neighbour white.
A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent.
Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth).
On painting and fighting looke aloofe. [On painting and fighting look aloof.]
The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
Valour that parlies is neare yeelding. [Valor that parleys is near yielding.]
There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.
Our Lord Jesus Christ , my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants.
Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.
The first world we find ourselves in is a family that is not of our choosing.
For you where never my blood sister so no more shall I call you little sister
Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?
The end we know not; but we wander on, Down the regretful wilderness of time.
All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.
Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.
I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.
Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just
Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead.
If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
I spit honey out of my mouth: nothing is second-best after the sweet of Eros.
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.
If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.
Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.
In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.
The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.
The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.
What we feel most has no name but amber, archers, cinnamon, horses and birds.
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.
As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars.
Something should always change in a poem. The persona should learn something.
Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.
Don't for a moment believe He was killing the young; He was costuming angels.