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In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
Flowers every night Blossom in the sky; Peace in the Infinite, At peace am I.
With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart.
My beloved grows right out of my own heart. How much more union can there be.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
For Cambridge people rarely smile, Being urban, squat, and packed with guile.
A lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates.
Do good even to the wicked; it is as well to shut a dog's mouth with a crumb.
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.
But years hath done this wrong, To make me write too much, and live too long.
Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
Fingers interlocked like a beautiful accordion of flesh or a zipper of prayer
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it.
That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.
The visionless officialized fatuityThat once kept Europe safe for Perpetuity.
Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.
Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body.
[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)
Youth is an arithmetical statement of passing interest, each hour eats it up.
I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.
How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end.
Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit;Too close immediacy an exhaustion
There is no greater wealth than Virtue,And no greater loss than to forget it.
Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day
The Love-god inflames more fiercely those he sees are reluctant to surrender.
Not for no cold did freeze, Nor any cloud beguile Th'eternal flowering spring
It is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life.
Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.
If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.
Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.
There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.
Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.
[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.)
Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.
To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith
Shall memory restore The steps and the shore, The face and the meeting place.
One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
Now shall I walk or shall I ride? 'Ride,' Pleasure said; 'Walk,' Joy replied.