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Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
That knave preserves the pearl in his purse who considers all people purse-cuts.
Feeling hearts--touch them but lightly--pour A thousand melodies unheard before.
If I should have a daughter, instead of "Mom," she's going to call me "Point B."
The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.
I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.
The baby bat Screamed out in fright, 'Turn on the dark, I'm afraid of the light.
If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!
The child asks, 'Why don't I have this happiness thing you're telling me about?'
You can't have relationships with other people until you give birth to yourself.
what i need is traveling minds talktouch kisses spittouch you swimming upstream.
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?
So actions themselves are not good and not bad; only the intention is important.
Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well.
So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss? Shall I ever find it, whatever it is?
What you want most you push away from you. You want more than you care to admit.
Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.
The sea cries with its meaningless voice, Treating alike its dead and its living
There is no better way to know us Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood.
Not every light is a true light; To the wise the light of truth is light itself.
Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant
One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.
There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.
A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth
Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.
Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.
Every evening words, not stars, light the sky. No rest in life like life itself.
Leadership is not about being important, it's about serving something important.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.
Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.
He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
We were put on this Earth to help others. Why others were put here is beyond me.
Long ago the accusations had begun, And suddenly knew by whom it had been judged
Look in the perfumes of flowers and of nature for peace of mind and joy of life.
Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... / Passion and expression are beauty itself.
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.
How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress ?
I hear the howl of the wind that brings The long drear storm on its heavy wings.
When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge
Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.