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To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.
Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.
Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers
Knowledge is Bought only with a weary care, And wisdom means a world of pain.
Physiognomy is often a great falsifier, though as a rule it is honest enough.
Wishes run over in loquacious impotence, will presses on with laconic energy.
The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.
Wishin' was dyin' but I gotta make it all this way to that bed on these feet.
The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.
With charm you’ve got to get up close to see it; style slaps you in the face.
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee.
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store
If you are for a merry jaunt, I will try, for once, who can foot it farthest.
Time glides with undiscover'd haste; The future but a length behind the past.
It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
Love is a child that talks in broken language, yet then he speaks most plain.
From kings to cobblers 'tis the same; Bad servants wound their masters' fame.
I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.
Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.
It may be that we cease; we cannot tell. Even if we cease, life is a miracle.
And may we find when ended is the page, Death but a tavern on our pilgrimage.
What can 'scape the eye Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart. Omniscient!
You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind.
And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.
For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?
For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.
Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.
A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.
But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.
Sing such a song with all of your heart that you'll never have to sing again.
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times
Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?
No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.
Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.
But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you?
When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.
Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.
There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.
And I never believed that the multitude / of dreams and many words were vain.
The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.