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Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.
Any woodthrush shows it - he sings, not to fill the world, but because he is filled.
A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?
I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive.
Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked.
The wise are known by their actions; fame and immortality are ever their attendants.
I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
All beauty, resonance, integrity, Exist by deprivation or logic Of strange position.
Once you've lived in France, you don't want to live anywhere else, including France.
To make the hips the focal point of a pair of trousers is, to me, a fashion mistake.
When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were
Christ beats his drum, but he does not press men; Christ is served with voluntaries.
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.
Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfil All offices of death, except to kill.
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither.
He look'd in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
A lively faith will bear aloft the mind, and leave the luggage of good works behind.
Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.
A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.
Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.
Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn.
Heaven open'd wide Her ever during gates, harmonious sound, On golden hinges moving.
I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.
But oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return!
The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger.
Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.
The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.
But oh, she dances in such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.
He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.
I remember rather little of my life, and what I do remember is of small consequence.
I had no knowledge of divine help, and all the world lost faith in gradual progress.
Savage bears keep at peace with one another. [Lat., Saevis inter se convenit ursis.]
Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]
There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have.
Those things in life that matter will give you pain as you learn to understand life.
And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?
History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.