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pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation.
Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, "look at me move.
I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew.
Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.
Labor! all labor is noble and holy! Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God.
Obedience to truth known, is the king's highway to that which is still beyond us.
Neutrality is dangerous, whereby thou becomest a necessary prey to the conqueror.
Take heed thou trust not the deceitful lap Of wanton Dalilah; the world's a trap.
The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.
Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come.
After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board
In the mind of a woman, to give birth to a child is the short cut to omniscience.
Woo her not till thou hast seen her mother, for a score of years worketh wonders.
What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
Secrets with girls, like guns with boys, are never valued till they make a noise.
In dance the hand hath liberty to touch, the eye to gaze, the arm for to embrace.
He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
Wealth is the Conjurer's Devil, Whom, when he thinks he hath, the Devil hath him.
A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well.
Better good afarre off, then evill at hand. [Better good afar than evil at hand.]
He carries well, to whom it waighes not. [He carries well, to whomit weighs not.]
If the old dog barke he gives counsell. [If the old dog barks, he gives counsel.]
More have repented speech then silence. [More have repented speech than silence.]
Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee.
You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth.
Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.
I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.
God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm.
Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. Oh, what lies there are in kisses!
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.
Who waits until the wind shall silent keep Will never find the ready hour to sow.
It is, we believe, Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump Can extinguish hell.
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
Is this is a dream? O, if it be a dream, Let me sleep on, and do not wake me yet!
To charm, to strengthen, and to teach: these are the three great chords of might.
Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old, their beards of icicles and snow.
And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.
Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice.
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
When the shingles hissed in the rain incendiary, other values were revealed to us
What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.
Come, let us take a lesson from our forefathers, and enjoy the Christmas holyday.
A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.