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Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress.
A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen; She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.
It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?
What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.
The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.
I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.
To us love says humming that the heart's stalled motor has begun working again.
Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say
A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream.
The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again.
Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss... it is inevitable as life.
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.
What the world's million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere.
No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.
Most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see them
Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic.
Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, Shall never find it more.
O gentle son, Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, sprinkle cool patience.
How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance.
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch! Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?
Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible!
Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.
If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.
Oh, I have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams!
How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!
If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.
Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes, but presently prevent the ways to wail.
Before, I loved thee as a brother, John, But now, I do respect thee as my soul.
We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun.
Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on his back.
It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.
Zounds! sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.
Let me confess that we two must be twain, although our undivided loves are one.
There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.
Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate
Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.
No reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head.
a young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief