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We continue to speak, if only in whispers, to something inside us that longs to be named.
may I be I is the only prayer--not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong.
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility
So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace; And makes all ills that vex us here to cease.
Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as does a distinguished success.
There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see.
Each book should be an entity unto itself, with its own structure, character, life, name.
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees
I wonder more and more just where I may have come out if I had never seen Harvard Square.
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water.
Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.
I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else.
I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.
I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.
Shine Son of glory, and my sinnes are goneLike twinkling Starres before the rising Sunne.
No labor is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at.
Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
If you're just mired in privilege, there's nothing to learn; learning appears to be over.
People who are suffering have to visualize ways out of tragedy to actually get out of it.
Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!
The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
And when a beest is deed, he hath no peyne; But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne.
Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.
Marriage the happiest bond of love might be, If hands were only joined when hearts agree.
Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speaks something good.
Prayers and provender hinder no journey. [Prayers and provender hinder no man's journey.]
Shewa good man his errour and he turnes it to a vertue, but an ill, it doubles his fault.
The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.
No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.
Underground issues from one relationship or context invariably fuel our fires in another.
The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.
We must make a journey around the world to see if a back door has perhaps been left open.
O proudly name their names who bravely sail| To seek brave lost in Arctic snows and seas!
The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.
Truth has as many coats as an onion ... and each one of them hollow when you peel it off.
The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it 'easing the Spring.'
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy.
The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected.
Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow.