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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
If blue is dream what then innocence? What awaits the heart if Love bears no arrows?
I had a hat. It was not all a hat,-Part of the brim was gone:Yet still I wore it on.
I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.
To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.
He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.
The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.
The goods we spend we keep; and what we save We lose; and only what we lose we have.
Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
I love my country better than my family; but I love humanity better than my country.
The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.
Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will.
The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear.
Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.
You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.
A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.
Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space.
Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.
I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it.
Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.
A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]
Labour as long liu'd, pray as even dying. [Labor as long-lived, pray as ever dying.]
Ah my deare God! though I am clean forgot, Let me not love thee, if I love thee not.
By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.
I awoke in the Midsummer not-to-call night, in the white and the walk of the morning
There is no Theam more plentifull to scan, Then is the glorious goodly frame of Man.
Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage.
I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music.
Only a Perfect One who is always laughing at the word two can make you know of Love.
Kids want nothing more than for all the important adults in their life to get along.
I began to write because I was too shy to talk, and too lonely not to send messages.
A boy's will is the wind's will, and the thought's of youth are long, long thoughhts
God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness.
Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.
Love those who love you, help those you help you, and give to those who give to you.
But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.
Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true
Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.
Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.
These trifles will lead to serious mischief. [Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent In mala.]
Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
We think about sex obsessively except during the act, when our minds tend to wander.
When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.
Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.
One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.
Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.
One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.