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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart!
As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.
Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ.
That which we are, we are, and if we are ever to be any better, now is the time to begin.
Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.
I know a thousand things louder than a soldier's gun; I know the heartbeat of his mother.
Real artists free of the tedium of money can use, now, all of society as an idea factory.
If you were music I would listen to you ceaselessly And my low spirits would brighten up.
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.
I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.
God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.
Daylight is nobody's friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp.
Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don't always hiss or muck up the day, each day.
To have loved, to have been made happy thus, / What better fate has life in store for us?
I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.
Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.
Que pour les malheureux l'heure lentement fuit! How slowly the hours pass to the unhappy.
It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.
Some sins may help you to remember Allah while some blessings may cause you to forget Him
The crux of our power isn't only in our voice. It is in our economic function in society.
In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.
Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.
There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.
Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit.
A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
I was a bore and didn't know when to smile or fake it. Or rather worse, I did but didn't.
Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends; He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.
Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.
Born in a stable, Cradled in a manger, In the world His hands have made, Born a stranger.
The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.
For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.
If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.
Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance!
This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.
Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act.
I should be content to look at a mountain for what it is and not as a comment on my life.
A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.
Sweetheart, when you break thru you'll find a poet here, not quite what one would choose.
Simply allow your thoughts and experiences to come and go, without ever grasping at them.
Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion.
Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard.