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The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
We are on a planet of seven billion people, five billion mobile subscriptions.
Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.
Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.
We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.
What divides men is less a difference in ideas than a likeness in pretensions.
Great is the height I just scale, but the prospect of glory gives me strength.
I do not like it when other people dress up. I like everyone to be THEMSELVES.
If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.
What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us.
Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.
Trees have a secret life that is only revealed to those willing to climb them.
Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.
There are fewer ways of making love than they say, and more than one believes.
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.
Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.
Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.
His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.
The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.
So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking.
In vain our labours are, whatsoe'er they be, unless God gives the Benediction.
Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.
Dying--shucks! If you kin handle the living, what's to be afraid of the dying?
In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.
The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.
Then you've a hunch what the music meant . . . hunger and night and the stars.
I was tired. I peaked. I left when I was on top. One year, I did 280 concerts.
by thus keeping one pace ahead of myself I need never catch up with the truth.
Writing has been a way of explaining to myself the things I do not understand.
I seem restless, but am deeply at ease. Branches tremble; the roots are still.
You are the honoured guest, Do not weep like a beggar For pieces of the world.
Treasures and armies do not make a king. A true king is a king within himself.
What was said to the rose that made it open, was said to me, here in my chest.
Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.
When lovers of life get ready to dance, the earth shakes and the sky trembles.
Love is the vital core of the soul. And of all you see, only love is infinite.
If you become a helper of hearts, springs of wisdom will flow from your heart.
Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
We are the fingertips of blind illusion, You are the absolute Cause of causes.
Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.
Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.
Live at the empty heart of paradox. I'll dance with you there, cheek to cheek.
Words can fertilize space now and then; don't deny yourself becoming enriched.