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Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.
Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest." And the boy did. And the tree was happy.
People are always giving you credit for really wanting to say more than you said.
Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep
Religion is the biggest influence on the intellect and the decadence of a people.
You're thinking I'm a hopelessly romantic idiot. And you know what? You're right.
If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
What did my fingers do before they held him? What did my heart do, with its love?
You are the one. Solid the spaces lean on, envious. You are the baby in the barn.
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
The self says, I am; The heart says, I am less; The spirit says, you are Nothing.
The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals
Even the ignorant may appear very worthy, If they keep silent before the learned.
Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!
As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, so error is hell, or a mischief as bad.
I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.
The most fundamental attack on freedom is the attack on critical thinking skills.
There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors.
High finance trembles in its boots whenever there is some political complication.
We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.
The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.
The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.
If there are any souls in hell, it is because that is where they insist on being.
Get up very early and get going at once. In fact, work first and wash afterwards.
Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
The muddy rivers of spring Are snarling Under the muddy skies. The mind is muddy.
Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.
I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.
To Chloe's breast young Cupid slily stole, But he crept in at Myra's pocket-hole.
Come live, and be merry, and join with me, To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!
Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
For what but eye and ear silence the mind With the minute particulars of mankind?
Love makes those young whom age doth chill, And whom he finds young, keeps still.
Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?
All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence.
The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.
Too much to know is to know nought but fame; And every godfather can give a name.
I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.