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Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?
The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods.
A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.
Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.
Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.
If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, Which is as white and hairless as an egg.
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score: Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.
If what you want to do is make good art, decide what's good and try to imitate it.
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children
Pity for him who one day looks uponhis inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost.
Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.
Carry the burden smilingly and cheerfully, because patience is the key to victory.
Wherever water flows, life flourishes: wherever tears fall, Divine mercy is shown.
Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.
Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.
While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away.
If you yearn for holy felicity, shed your arrogance and Become A Seeker Of Hearts.
When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.
A lover's life lies in death. You shall not find a heart without losing the heart.
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
You live in my heart where no one sees you but I do. That vision becomes this art.
Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working.
I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire.
Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel - I am the carpenter of my own soul.
When you seek Love with all your Heart, you shall find its echoes in the universe.
Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.
Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.
In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is!
The window-lights, myriads and myriads,Bloom from the walls like climbing flowers.
When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away.
Smile As you find a rhythm Working you, slow mile by mile, Into your proper haunt.
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
When I was a kid, I used to think pork chops and karate chops were the same thing.
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend, or wise man can decide what's right for you.
But we'll stumble on, she and I, into our messy future. And we'll have each other.
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.
The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.
Fear in the world first created the gods. [Lat., Primus in orbe deos fecit timor.]
The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.