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In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
All the rarest hues of human life take radiance and are rainbowed out in tears.
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.
Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.
Let's get loose with Compassion. Let's drown in the delicious ambience of Love.
Run my dear, From anything That may not strengthen Your precious budding wings.
Though face and form alter with the years, I hold fast to the pearl of my mind.
The bolder and more courageous you are, the more you will learn about yourself.
The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing.
In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.
From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom.
And once again we plighted our troth, And titter'd, caress'd, kiss'd so dearly.
Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.
Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance.
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.
Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done.
Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.
Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.
It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.
No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.
That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.
By wine eating cares are put to flight. [Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]
The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.
The thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years!
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.
If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train.
Analysis is carried into everything. Even Deity is subjected to chemical tests.
A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water.
Suddenly I realize That if I stepped out of my body I would break Into blossom.
Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said.
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.
The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness.
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment.
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime.
Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver's issue, as the prince's son.
England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.
O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.