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If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it
A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.
To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.
One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
Preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others.
Oh seize the instant time; you never will With water once passed by impel the mill.
And I, what is my crime I cannot tell, Unless it be a crime to haue lou'd too well.
The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.
I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.
Teach me, like you, to drink creation whole/ And casting out myself, become a soul.
The lead either forges an instant connection with the reader, or the package fails.
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?
Hatred and cark and care, what place have they / In yon blue liberality of heaven?.
Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.
Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.
When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs.
One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too
Humble we must be, if to heaven we go; High is the roof there, but the gate is low.
But sometimes everything I write with the threadbare art of my eye seems a snapshot
Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven Contain my deadliest enemy and me.
Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons On this treacherous path.
Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.
Heart be brave. If you cannot be brave, just go. Love's glory is not a small thing.
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.
You believe God is not there, but He is, Hidden in the secret of the divine mystery
The undisciplined man doesn't wrong himself alone- he sets fire to the whole world.
You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self.
The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire.
Love is the energizing elixir of the Universe, the cause and effect of all Harmony.
I have no fear to burn my mouth and throat I’m ready to drink every flame and more.
How can you ever hope to know the Beloved Without becoming in every cell the Lover?
Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means "death.
I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.
Actually, your soul and mine are the same. We appear and disappear with each other.
Outside ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
I am a child whose teacher is LOVE surely my master won't let me grow to be a fool.
Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter.
If thou covetest riches, ask not but for contentment, which is an immense treasure.
When better cherries are not to be had, We needs must take the seeming best of bad.
A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.
Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.
We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.
I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.
I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.