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The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.
The Wreck of the Hesperus But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he.
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted.
In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...
lucid and quiet his voice hovered above the listeners, like a light, like a starry sky.
Gossip and rumor are evil; easy to lift up, heavy to carry, and hard to put down again.
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.
Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.
Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.
Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.
While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
Ancient simplicity is gone...the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery.
Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.
The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.
An ordinary hole beside a path through the woods might begin to open to altered worlds.
I am the one whose love overcomes you, already with you when you think to call my name.
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.
And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree, So scant of grass, so profligate of pines
My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.
Know in the first place, that mankind agree in essence, as they do in limbs and senses.
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.
Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like.
Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth.
Throw not my words away, as many do;They're gold in value, though they're cheap to you.
Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
Women are like the arts, forced unto none, Open to all searchers, unprized, if unknown.
Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow.
When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.
But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.
How easy 'tis, when Destiny proves kind, With full-spread sails to run before the wind!
Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age, When no man dies for love, but on the stage.
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
Mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.